Theo wants to remove libcompat.a and I agree.
For those who don't know, libcompat is a small static library with
compatibility stubs for a handful of long obsolete, forgotten APIs from
the 1980s:
Modern replacement:
* gtty(3), stty(3) -> tcgetattr(3) etc.
* re_comp(3), re_exec(3) -> regcomp(3) etc.
* ftime(3) -> gettimeofday(2)
* cuserid(3) -> getpwuid(3) etc.
* setruid(3), setrgid(3) -> setreuid(2) etc.
* rexec(3) -> rcmd(3) etc.
Nothing should still use these. Anything that does is probably so
crufty that we should consider removing it, or otherwise it can be
fixed.
sthen@ has (been) volunteered to find all ports that still require
libcompat and will provide a list in the next few days.
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected]
