Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 14:08:09 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> Cc: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> Subject: Re: Can't build -CURRENT on 4.7 Message-ID: <3EE4BEF9.1080801@tcoip.com.br> In-Reply-To: <20030607113546.GB98826@sunbay.com> References: <200306070438.h574cs52049913@cueball.rtp.FreeBSD.org> <3EE16E0F.2050207@acm.org> <20030607065700.GA59525@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030607113546.GB98826@sunbay.com>
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Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 11:57:00PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
>
>>On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 09:46:07PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
>>
>>>The compiler in 4.7 does not like this:
>>>
>>> -std=gnu99
>>>
>>>As a result, buildworld of -CURRENT fails
>>>rather early.
>>
>>Committers are not required to support building 5-CURRENT, post
>>5.0-RELEASE on a 4.7 machine. So this is not grounds to remove the
>>change. However, someone will probably patch the build system to
>>tolerate it.
>>
>
> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that this support
> will no longer be _required_ when we have a first release on the
> RELENG_5 (-STABLE) branch. trb@?
That was my understanding too, alas. Granted, we *must* provide an
update path from the last 4.x release to the first *stable* 5.x release.
But I do recall being advised that the core decided to support upgrade
from *any* 4.x release to 5.0.
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