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

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 15 May 2006, Rich Felker wrote:

> On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 01:44:54PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> > > 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...
>
> This is much worse, since gcc3+ run slow, generate slow code, and
> have the abominable new C++ abi.. I use 2.95 by choice because
> gcc3/4 are not yet usable in my evaluation of them..

that may be but, regardless of arguments based on merit, there comes a
point where you have to move on from some piece of software simply
because fewer and fewer people are interested in supporting it.

if gcc-2.95 works for you out of the box, terrific.  but if you need
support of any kind, good luck finding anyone willing to invest the
time to help you out.  the same logic holds if someone starts asking
for support for busybox-0.60.

regardless of how good a piece of software is, there comes a point
when, for better or worse, it's time to move on.

rday