COMPAT_FREEBSD8 [was: Re: IPSec and racoon issue...]

Ian Smith smithi at nimnet.asn.au
Fri Jan 2 12:44:30 UTC 2015


On Fri, 2 Jan 2015 12:33:33 +0100, Claude Buisson wrote:
 > On 01/02/2015 05:49, Kevin Oberman wrote:
 > > 
 > > Thanks to the magic of symbol versioning, I don't think there has a
 > > COMPAT_FREEBSD8 or COMPAT_FREEBSD9. With luck and care, there should never
 > > be one again.
 > 
 > Have a look at sys/conf/NOTES in -head, to find:
 > 
 >  COMPAT_FREEBSD9
 >  COMPAT_FREEBSD10
 > 
 > added by r273603 on Oct 24
 > 
 > but no  COMPAT_FREEBSD8

Interesting, thanks guys.  Maybe 8 and 9 come to the same thing in this 
respect.  FWIW, pascal binaries built on 8.2 i386 run fine on 9.3 amd64, 
but mine are just maths and file I/O.  Not sure why I was surprised ..

cheers, Ian


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