On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 01:00:04PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > For example - there is a huge difference between a RedHat kernel, and > > kernel.org. Most Debian userspace packages are heavily patched - yeah, it > > kind of stinks - but that is what "diff" is for.... > > No, that's what the seperately provided patches are for.
Actually I find it interesting to look at blackfin's version of elf2flt. This particular CTOR/DTOR bug was fixed 2007-08-30, then reintroduced 2008-11-06 because someone grabbed changes from upstream, and then fixed again 2008-11-27. This is exactly one of those things where locally kept patches would have saved a lot of trouble, since the difference between local and upstream would have clearly shown that removing the lines was a fix, and adding them back in on a future upstream merge would not happen since the patch would do a remove against a known base from upstream. Possibly the use of a better version control system would take care of it too I suppose. Either way this change ought to go upstream since it does fix m68k with gcc 4.3. -- Len Sorensen _______________________________________________ uClibc mailing list uClibc@uclibc.org http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/uclibc