misc/dnetc and compat

[Pav Lucistnik]

Andrew P. píše v ne 30. 10. 2005 v 00:41 +0400:
> There's a situation with misc/dnetc.
> 
> It is a closed-source port, compiled for 4.11. Those
> who wish to run it on 5.x must have
> COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option compiled in their kernel,
> otherwise they'll get a bad syscall and a core dump.
> 
> Some time ago I filed a bug report for that
> (http://bugs.distributed.net/show_bug.cgi?id=3875)
> and a developer compiled a version for 5.x. It is
> available from this page:
> 
> http://distributed.net/download/prerelease.php
> http://http.distributed.net/pub/dcti/prerelease/rc/dnetc496-freebsd5-x86-elf.tar.gz
> ftp://ftp.distributed.net/pub/dcti/prerelease/rc/dnetc496-freebsd5-x86-elf.tar.gz
> 
> Therefore, to use these compiled binaries, we can:
> 
> * install it automatically for 5.3 or higher
> * introduce some option for it
> * introduce a new port, something like dnetc-devel
> 
> Personally, I like the first option.
> 
> What do you think?

Yes, modify the port to install one binary on 4.X and another on 5.X/6.X

-- 
Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
              <pav at FreeBSD.org>

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