Re: HEADS-UP: removed COMPAT_43 from GENERIC (and other configs)

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@xxxxxxxxxx>, 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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