Remove obsolete Tru64 UNIX V5.1B fixinclude support

Bruce Korb bkorb@gnu.org
Mon Mar 5 17:29:00 GMT 2012


On 03/05/12 09:01, Rainer Orth wrote:
> This is where I need explicit approval and/or guidance:
>
> * There are some fixincludes hacks that from their names seem to be
>    osf-specific, but are not restricted to alpha*-dec-osf*.  Bruce,
>    what's the best way to handle those?  Disable them e.g. with a mach
>    clause like unused-alpha*-dec-osf* and see if anything else breaks?

I think the right way is to require that all ports have a maintenance
person build the thing at least once a year for all supported platforms.

For such maintenance builds, I can trivially emit a list of hacks that
got triggered during the build.  Any hacks that don't show up in the
list for a couple of years get marked as "obsolete" and trigger a build
warning.  If nobody complains about the warning, then its gone.
Shouldn't take more than 3 or 4 years of disuse to get rid of the cruft. :)

How's that for an approach?

Cheers - Bruce



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