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Re: Convert 3.2 sources to ISO C90
- From: law at redhat dot com
- To: Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>
- Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>, "David S. Miller" <davem at redhat dot com>, robertlipe at usa dot net, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 23:58:11 -0600
- Subject: Re: Convert 3.2 sources to ISO C90
- Reply-to: law at redhat dot com
In message <3CFEF799.B8B63C35@apple.com>, Stan Shebs writes:
> So it sounds like this would take away one of your concerns about
> making HP binaries available to people who need something to get
> started with? People will be able to use 3.1 now to get started,
> and then build 3.2 binaries with install-time fixincludes in the
> future.
It fixes one of them (ability to provide binaries that are likely to
work across a large number of systems).
However, we still have the problem of how do we bootstrap on new versions
of hpux -- they're notorious for changing more than just the header files.
We could easily end up in a situation where the binaries we have simply
aren't suitable for new versions of hpux, at which point were're rather
hosed.
jeff