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

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 01:55:08PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>On Sat, 13 May 2006, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
>
>> I, personally, would require the current, stable release of make
>> (3.81 as the time of this writing), but i'm aware that the installed
>> base of 3.80 is very big (the majority of distros use/ship it).
>
>i don't think you can avoid still supporting 3.80 *but* does that mean
>supporting early *broken* versions of 3.80?  or patched and properly
>working, later versions?  there's a big difference there as i'm sure
>you can appreciate.
>
>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 ;)

Serious. Slack ships plain release tarballs, other distros try to
incooperate fixes. You can't tell from the version alone how broken it
is anyway. It's just a guestimate.

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

Alternatively, shrink applets or go through the TODO