COMPAT_FREEBSDn

Rainer Hurling rhurlin at gwdg.de
Sun Apr 26 09:45:42 UTC 2009


For example if you are using x11/nvidia-driver you have to install 
misc/compat5x for the binary part of the driver. There may be some more 
ports like this.

Rainer Hurling


On 25.04.2009 19:25 (UTC+2), 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?



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