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Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation de
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Sam James |
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Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults? |
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Sat, 12 Nov 2022 04:00:48 +0000 |
> On 12 Nov 2022, at 00:53, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
> On 2022-11-11 15:25, Sam James wrote:
>> That's not a judgement on whether the changes will ultimately remain in
>> autoconf, I'm just
>> hesitant to allow a discussion I've kicked off to derail something that we
>> were planning
>> on doing anyway.
>> What do you think?
>
> I'm hesitant to do that partly because the changes to _TIME_BITS are already
> released in multiple packages and need to be dealt with, regardless of
> whether they're backed out of Autoconf. This is because they've been in
> Gnulib since July and several packages based on these Gnulib changes have
> been released since then. Current Gnulib assumes these changes will appear in
> the next Autoconf release; if that's not true, we'll need to upgrade Gnulib
> and in the meantime the other packages released since July would still have
> the changes whatever we do with Gnulib and/or Autoconf.
>
> Since distros need to deal with the issue anyway, regardless of what Autoconf
> and/or Gnulib does, I don't see why backing the changes out of Autoconf will
> help all that much.
>
> It should pretty easy for a distro to say "hold on, I don't want 64-bit
> time_t yet" without changing either Autoconf or Gnulib so if you want to go
> that route please feel free to do so.
The fact it's already shipped in gnulib & that the "real problem" is in glibc
IMO means that I don't feel
strongly about reverting it.
You're right that distros have the toggle so as long as we mention this
prominently enough in NEWS,
I don't have a strong objection to master being released as-is.
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- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, (continued)
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Michael Orlitzky, 2022/11/10
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Sam James, 2022/11/10
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Zack Weinberg, 2022/11/10
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Sam James, 2022/11/11
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Paul Eggert, 2022/11/11
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Zack Weinberg, 2022/11/12
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Paul Eggert, 2022/11/12
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Sam James, 2022/11/11
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Paul Eggert, 2022/11/11
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?,
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Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Sam James, 2022/11/11