Re: OSABI

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 04:39:56PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 06:18:40PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > osabi is about the kernel interface for kvm grovellers and x11links for
> 
> this is broken then, as it tries to identify both the kernel and
> userland ABI. Almost none of my machines have a matching kernel and
> userland: I'm usually happy with the last stable release for userland,
> but I need a netbsd-x kernel for new features or bug fixes.

The very concept of KVM groveller is broken. No surprise there. It
doesn't mean they don't exist and certain things like net-snmp are quite
version specific for exactly this reason. Somewhat similar for
x11-links. Just because it works for you doesn't mean it works for
everyone else.

Joerg