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

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <200606151259.57929.beech at alaskaparadise.com>, Beech Rintoul writes:
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>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 commente=
>d=20
>out of my kernel configs for some time and haven't seen any port breakage o=
>n=20
>either 6.x or -current.

I think the trick is to remove those from your kernel and remove the
<sgtty.h> #include file and then build all the ports :-(


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