On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, Matt Turner wrote:
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
<curi...@bwv190.internetdsl.tpnet.pl> wrote:
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
On 02/26/11 01:20 AM, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski wrote:
xfree86: Drop linux libc5 support from the SIGIO code
hmm, could this be elaborated?
affects older slackware boxes, etc.
Those summaries all come from git, so to get more details, simply
look at the commit in git:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=47c91dca8d8eecb429123e8370302831bcd57938
thanx.
personally i do not think this code breaks anything for normal users,
it does not introduce bloat - it's ifdef,
so why remove it? even if 'defunct', it's at least in correct
place.
What could possibly be correct about running libc5 in 2011?
If you want to run libc5 or Linux 1.2, fine, but an equivalently
ancient version of xfree86 should go along with it.
it is very strange policy. i can understand investiment in bugfixes
can be dropped, but removal of code which does not do any harm ,
just to FORCE 'libc incorrect' people to use old Xfree or upgrade
is IMHO not right.
concerning such code - perhaps adding another #ifdef,
depending on i.e. "ENABLE_ANCIENT_AND_UNTESTED" variable around such code
could be some compromise, instead of just removal.
p.s. FIY libc5 is used not only with linux.
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