Re: Next pretest

[Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>]

On 4/14/2010 6:51 PM, Chong Yidong wrote:
> Ken Brown<kbrown@cornell.edu>  writes:
>
>> On 4/13/2010 11:30 AM, Chong Yidong wrote:
>>> I plan to make the 23.1.96 pretest next Monday, April 19.
>>
>> There's still a pending Cygwin patch that I proposed a while ago:
>>
>>    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-01/msg01128.html
>>
>> Could you apply that?
>
> In the future, please send patches to the bug tracker, so that they do
> not get lost.  Thanks.

OK, I'll do that from now on.

> In the previous email, you said
>
>> Even though Dave Korn's advice about libraries turned out to be
>> irrelevant for this issue, I still think it would be wise to follow
>> it.  The attached patch accomplishes this.
>
> Could you explain what you mean by "wise"?  Does the patch fix an actual
> bug (e.g. inability to compile), or is it just for cleanliness?  If the
> latter, the patch should go in the trunk.

I'm not aware of an actual bug.  But Dave Korn is one of the gcc 
developers as well as one of the Cygwin developers, and he said it could 
cause trouble.  Nevertheless, it's fine with me if you apply it to the 
trunk.

Thanks.

Ken