11:37 garga 

- Update to 7.4
- Support staging
- Drop sparc64

 

13:13 garga 

After discuss with jhb@ and kib@, here are fixed version of compat[567]x ports
working fine when installed on 8.0.

compat5x:

  Installed under a FreeBSD 6.x or 7.x:
      /usr/local/lib/compat/libpthread.so.1 (file)
    on amd64:
      /usr/local/lib32/compat/libpthread.so.1 (fine)

  Installed under a FreeBSD 8.x:
      /usr/local/lib/compat/libpthread.so.1 -> ./libthr.so.1 (symlink)
    on amd64:
      /usr/local/lib32/compat/libpthread.so.1 -> ./libthr.so.1 (symlink)

compat6x:

  Installed under a FreeBSD 7.x:
      /usr/local/lib/compat/libpthread.so.2 (file)
    on amd64:
      /usr/local/lib32/compat/libpthread.so.2 (fine)

  Installed under a FreeBSD 8.x:
      /usr/local/lib/compat/libpthread.so.2 -> ./libthr.so.2 (symlink)
    on amd64:
      /usr/local/lib32/compat/libpthread.so.2 -> ./libthr.so.2 (symlink)

compat7x:

  Installed under a FreeBSD 8.x:
      /usr/local/lib/compat/libkse.so.3 -> /lib/libthr.so.3 (symlink)
    on amd64:
      /usr/local/lib32/compat/libkse.so.3 -> /usr/lib32/libthr.so.3 (symlink)

Reported by:    kib
Thanks to:      jhb and kib

11:03 garga 

* Please welcome compat7x

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This package allows you to install the compat7x libraries on your
system, so you can use legacy binaries that depend on them.
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Thanks to:      tabthorpe, all testers