PROPOSAL: Variation on an Alternate policy for obsoleting targets

[Joe Buck]

I 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).
 
On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 09:30:40PM -0700, Bruce Korb wrote:
> Would it be too much trouble to set an environment variable
> and email in the resulting report file?  (Were it implemented.)
> No expect required.

I don't understand what you have in mind.  Could you explain?