On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 12:59:38PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: > On Thursday 15 June 2006 12:36, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message <4491C2F0.6000007_at_rogers.com>, Mike Jakubik writes: > > >What about COMPAT_43TTY? Is this still needed, how exactly does it > > >affect the system? > > > > It adds a bunch of ancient-compatible ioctls to the kernel. > > > > It is, as a principle, not needed, but thanks to the many variants > > of "sh configure" employed in usr/ports, a quite large number of > > ports go "Ohh, this is BSD, I'd better use the old ioctls" and > > break if you don't offer them. > > Is there a way to easily identify these ports? I've had both lines commented > out of my kernel configs for some time and haven't seen any port breakage on > either 6.x or -current. I did a full build for phk some time ago, I don't remember how many broke but it was enough to make it a significant (but perhaps not difficult) task to fix them. Kris
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