On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 05:20:49PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > 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. > I think it would be helpful to do another run if possible and put the results online somewhere. That could significantly speed up the whole issue. - Christian -- Christian Brueffer chris_at_unixpages.org brueffer_at_FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D
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