Conditionally compiled lib*/*.o [was: Re: [PATCH] ...]

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Mon May 15 21:12:12 UTC 2006


On Monday 15 May 2006 2:10 pm, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 15 May 2006, Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Saturday 13 May 2006 2:24 pm, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> > > >as it stands, the current version on fedora core 5 is make-3.80-10,
> > > >for which there is a *lengthy* changelog of bugfixes since the
> > > >original release of 3.80.  so what's the policy?
> > >
> > > Policy?
> > > IIRC Rob want's to support 3.79.1 for his Redhat 5.3'ish image ;)
> >
> > I want to support building under Red Hat 9, which was released in
> > 2003.  It's about three years old, which makes it two years newer
> > than Windows XP.
>
> that's not really a compelling argument.  it's well known that linux
> distros come and go *way* more frequently than windows releases.

Which comes as a great comfort to the business community, knowing that they're 
subscribing to a flash in the pan that nobody will even remember, let alone 
support, in six months...

> and RH 9 was officially *obsoleted* just over two years ago as well.

I'm not saying Red Hat 9 wasn't crap. :)

> in any event, it's not a RH release thing, it's a make release thing.
> no one's asking you to drop support for RH 9.

What I'm really uncomfortable about here is tightening up the requirement to 
"we only work with extremely recent versions of gnu make".  Arguing that old 
versions of GNU make were crap I can get behind, but the alternative being 
just their new stuff?  Not so much.

What do the bsd guys or MacOS X use, anyway?

> rday

Rob
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