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Re: PROPOSAL: Variation on an Alternate policy for obsoleting targets
Joe Buck wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 02:28:36PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > Not all native targets support maintainer mode. Not all native
> > targets even support testing.
>
> For example, I recently built 3.3 on a very old Alpha OSF/1 box.
> As the "expect" program fails to build on that system, I can't submit
> tests, but the compiler appears to work.
>
> (I'm sure that the problem with "expect" is fixable, but it's not worth
> the bother for me personally; I just noticed that our porting center had
> this box around and tried it to see if it would work).
Would it be too much trouble to set an environment variable
and email in the resulting report file? (Were it implemented.)
No expect required.