From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] configure: Remove obsolete check for -b i486-linuxaout
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2023 14:01:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87edsdozto.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83h6xl5igv.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 24 Dec 2022 10:11:44 +0200")
* Eli Zaretskii:
>> From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
>> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 18:49:25 +0100
>>
>> If there are still a.out system arounds, they shouldn't need this
>> anymore because the toolchain has been fixed.
>>
>> * configure.ac (emacs_cv_b_link): Remove obsolete check.
>
> Thanks, I installed this on the master branch, since it sounds like
> this is a cleanup, not a real problem. If my conclusion is wrong, and
> this part of the configure script does cause problems, please post
> the details, and I will consider back-porting to the release branch.
Thanks!
It causes issues with a particular approach to C99 porting. But to my
knowledge, only Fedora uses this approach, and we are carrying it as a
downstream-only patch for now.
Florian
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-02 13:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-23 17:49 [PATCH] configure: Remove obsolete check for -b i486-linuxaout Florian Weimer
2022-12-24 8:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-02 13:01 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
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