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

[Rob Landley]

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.

Our user base does not consist of fruit flies.

> As it stands, try not to break 3.79.1 as long as landley doesn't drop
> that requirement.

Yes please. :)

> As the majority of people currently have 3.80-patched 
> or later, please check that you don't break 3.80-patched completely by
> relying on eventual feature/bugfixes of 3.81.
>
> Great, isn't it ;)

I didn't write Make.  Gotta work with what's there.  At least we could finally 
let go of gcc 2.95...

Rob
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