[PATCH] fix erroneous "builddir" reference in libbb/Makefile

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Tue May 16 01:34:06 UTC 2006


On Monday 15 May 2006 16:56, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Monday 15 May 2006 1:42 pm, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > Why are we still supporting the 2.4 kernel then, if we won't build
> > > under any distro that has a 2.4 kernel?
> >
> > now you're just making stuff up ... seriously, where did you pull this
> > out of ?
>
> I just checked and I was off by about a year: the 2.6 kernel (December
> 2003) is one year newer than Make 3.80 (October 2002), so it would be
> another 12 months before we'd have to drop support for 2.4 by this metric.

i dont think comparing userland development packages to the kernel is fair ... 
it's much easier to upgrade a userland dev package and verify its stability 
than to do the samething with a kernel
-mike
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