On Monday 23 February 2009 08:54:56 Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:36:20 +0100 Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 12:38 +0100, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote:
> > > Btw: the patch was "old", i.e. before I saw that you removed them
> > > completely from CVS.
> >
> > I understand.
> >
> > I don't understand how it could be helping before that removal.
> > The only scenario I can imagine when it would work is if one copies
> > cvs tree into an older *release* tree, and then runs configure (it is
> > there because release tree has it). But this is a quite awkward way of
> > building strace from cvs (makes sense only if one does not have
> > autoconf?), and is prone to subtle problems (extra stale header files
> > and such).
>
> Agreed, and if you want to work with CVS a proper development
> environment is recommended anyway I guess.

that tends to be my pov as well.  if you want to do tip development, you 
better have tip tools.  otherwise you can use a release (which presumably was 
generated with tip tools).  it gets to be a real pita when you're forced to 
make sure the development environment works even with older crappy versions 
with known bugs.
-mike

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