linux_base-f8

Wed Mar 26 15:57:34 PDT 2008

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:15:57 -0400 John Nielsen wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 March 2008 03:34:36 pm Beech Rintoul wrote:
> > What compat.linux.osrelease should I use with this?

> See the note in /usr/ports/UPDATING (then see the earlier one it refers 
> you to).

> I just installed it using compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 with 
> OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=f8 in /etc/make.conf and it works fine.

Thanks for your success report.

> (I'm 
> running RELENG_7 but grabbed the latest linux_futex.c and linux_futex.h 
> from HEAD as bsam@ suggested (well, he forgot to suggest the header 
> file)).

Yep, I've been too impatient to write an instruction for those
impatient, sorry. Anyway that instruction will live for a day or
so as Roman said.

WBR
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