Re: pkgsrc m4 patches

[john]

> > I just updated m4 in pkgsrc to 1.4.19 and noticed that I could remove
> > almost all patches. Thank you for that!
> >
> > Then I thought I'd point out the remaining ones to you in the hope we
> > can get rid of those as well.
> >
> > The first one is ancient, in pkgsrc since at least 2013; it's for the
> > NetBSD vax port. I don't know more than that about it. jklos committed
> > it, so perhaps he has more details.

> Regarding NetBSD/vax support, I won't act because
>  1) the patch does not give background information,
>  2) I guess that this platform is in the same category as
>     
> https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/Unsupported-Platforms.html
>     and all CPUs that were designed later than DEC alpha support
>     IEEE 854 well, including NaNs.

VAX is certainly not in the same category as the examples on that page :P

That said, the patch isn't needed any more, since evaluation at compile 
time doesn't happen any more.

Thanks,
John Klos