ports/83924: misc/compat4x: Bad system call (core dumped) without COMPAT_FREEBSD4 in kernel

[Scot W. Hetzel]

>Number:         83924
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       misc/compat4x: Bad system call (core dumped) without COMPAT_FREEBSD4 in kernel
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jul 22 18:40:12 GMT 2005
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Scot W. Hetzel
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.4
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
A user had installed the www/frontpage port on the I386 arch.  The FreeBSD frontpage binaries require the compat4x libraries.  When he executed frontpage/version5.0/bin/owsadm.exe he received "Bad system call (core dumped)".  He had removed the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 from his kernel config.

>How-To-Repeat:
Build a FreeBSD 5.x kernel without COMPAT_FREEBSD4, install the compat4x libraries, and then run owsadm.exe.
>Fix:
Add a pkg-message comment for OSVERSION > 500000 to add COMPAT_FREEBSD4 to the kernel before using any program that needs the compat4x libraries.

Also, add a comment to the FreeBSD 5.x src/share/examples/etc/make.conf saying the same thing, since the compat4x libraries could have been installed from the FreeBSD sources.
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