Re: COMPAT_FREEBSDn

From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013_at_student.uu.se>
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:00:35 +0200
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 12:25:28PM -0500, Wes Morgan wrote:
> The various COMPAT_FREEBSDn options are part of generic, but are they 
> needed for most users? Do they enable some structures or interfaces that 
> some userland programs still expect, or is it safe to disable them 
> assuming that I don't need to run binaries from older systems?

If you are sure that you will never need to run binaries compiled for older
systems, then the COMPAT_FREEBSD{4,5,6} options should be quite safe to
remove.


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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013_at_student.uu.se
Received on Sat Apr 25 2009 - 16:16:03 UTC

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