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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