On September 16, 2015 3:01:47 PM GMT+02:00, Matthias Klose <d...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >On 09/15/2015 09:23 PM, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote: >> On September 15, 2015 7:39:39 PM GMT+02:00, Mike Stump ><mikest...@comcast.net> wrote: >>> On Sep 14, 2015, at 3:37 PM, Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com> wrote: >>>>> Maybe GCC-6 can bump the required >>>>> dejagnu version to allow for getting rid of all these superfluous >>>>> load_gcc_lib? *blink* :) >>>> I'd support that as a direction. >>>> >>>> Certainly dropping the 2001 version from our website in favor of >1.5 >>> (which is what I'm using anyway) would be a step forward. >>> >>> So, even ubuntu LTS is 1.5 now. No harm in upgrading the website to >>> 1.5. I don’t know of any reason to not update and just require 1.5 >at >>> this point. I’m not a fan of feature chasing dejagnu, but an update >>> every 2-4 years isn’t unreasonable. >>> >>> So, let’s do it this way… Any serious and compelling reason to not >>> update to 1.5? If none, let’s update to 1.5 in another week or two, >if >>> no serious and compelling reasons not to. >>> >>> My general plan is, slow cycle updates on dejagnu, maybe every 2 >years. >>> LTS style releases should have the version in it before the >requirement >>> is updated. I take this approach as I think this should be the >maximal >>> change rate of things like make, gcc, g++, ld, if possible. >> >> Yea, although this means that 1.5.3 (a Version with the libdirs >tweak) being just 5 months old will have to wait another bump, I fear. >For my part going to plain 1.5 is useless WRT the load_lib situation. I >see no value in conditionalizing simplified libdir handling on a lucky >user with recentish stuff so i'm just waiting another 2 or 4 years for >this very minor cleanup. > >is this libdirs tweak backportable to 1.5.1 (Debian stable), or 1.5 >(Ubuntu LTS)?
Should be trivial, yes: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/dejagnu.git/commit/?id=5481f29161477520c691d525653323b82fa47ad7 Thanks,
