Re: Check linux 4

[Mike Frysinger]

On 25 May 2015 17:38, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 5/25/15 9:15 AM, isabella parakiss wrote:
> > This is from configure.ac
> > 
> > linux*)             LOCAL_LDFLAGS=-rdynamic          # allow dynamic loading
> >             case "`uname -r`" in
> >             2.[[456789]]*|3*)       AC_DEFINE(PGRP_PIPE) ;;
> >             esac ;;
> > 
> > It doesn't check for linux 4.
> 
> Two things:
> 
> 1. Is anyone actually using 4.0 in a distribution?

all the rolling release distros ?  i've been running 4.0 pretty much since it 
came out.

> 2. If you're looking at bash-4.3, why would you have expected a version
>    from a couple of years ago to check for it?

to be fair, that's what the code looks like in git too ...

but as long as when 4.4 is released, we don't have the same conversation when 
linux-5.0 is released ;)

> Between configure.ac and BASH_SYS_PGRP_SYNC, I imagine that it will be
> covered when 4.0 makes it out to the world.

can't we simply delete the uname check ?  it's wrong when cross-compiling and 
redundant with the other macro.
-mike

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