From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Florian Weimer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] configure: Remove obsolete check for -b i486-linuxaout Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2023 14:01:23 +0100 Message-ID: <87edsdozto.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> References: <87k02im2my.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> <83h6xl5igv.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11257"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 02 14:01:59 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pCKRy-0002iM-R7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2023 14:01:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pCKRX-00066z-Fi; Mon, 02 Jan 2023 08:01:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pCKRW-00066L-BK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2023 08:01:30 -0500 Original-Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com ([170.10.129.124]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pCKRU-00079z-KT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2023 08:01:30 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1672664486; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=y3biEbBRwTZF6xS1dhx1lfRcixW/eZE2I0vOwaCvDh0=; b=JKzIfws1j9sV4To3pORVmAILFIc+FDOaCokNcrLfDMAzzdtW47FgrLVCxG10ci2bhdtzCr WOSs2JBl4DtR83+OojnHcWj6HRsd5cBqwhEZFi5ell97PKwa3kYXchXup6bFPrDEYMcMzb AHikG1lfEFKlS/GEWSupMGlZDA7zQFk= Original-Received: from mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (mimecast-mx02.redhat.com [66.187.233.88]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-219-kHWYYAB3MwidygRJk71AYA-1; Mon, 02 Jan 2023 08:01:25 -0500 X-MC-Unique: kHWYYAB3MwidygRJk71AYA-1 Original-Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.3]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 43A2E8F6E81; Mon, 2 Jan 2023 13:01:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from oldenburg.str.redhat.com (unknown [10.2.16.30]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B6C431121314; Mon, 2 Jan 2023 13:01:24 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <83h6xl5igv.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 24 Dec 2022 10:11:44 +0200") X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.1 on 10.11.54.3 X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Received-SPF: pass client-ip=170.10.129.124; envelope-from=fweimer@redhat.com; helo=us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIMWL_WL_HIGH=-0.001, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:302194 Archived-At: * Eli Zaretskii: >> From: Florian Weimer >> 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