Re: [PATCH] so glibc snapshot can handle binutils snapshot

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring dot com>]

On Tue, 3 May 2005, Daniel Kegel wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   this is clearly a hacky patch and, just as clearly, this is
> > something that has to be fixed upstream since it's a flaw in the glibc
> > snapshot itself.  to support the following combination:
> >
> >   gcc-4.1-20050201
> >   glibc-20050502
> >   binutils-050502
> >
> > just trash the binutils version checking in glibc/configure.in (i
> > told you it was hacky).
>
> Now, now.  We can do better than that.  It should be
> a simple, painless regular expression change :-)

> I can't apply your change, but it's good to have around,
> and shows where the real fix needs to go.
>
> BTW when patching configure.ac scripts like that, please
> also include the patch for the resulting configure script,
> so people don't have to run autoconf.

ok.  but, obviously, this change really has to be made upstream.  i
*did* admit it was a hacky change, just so i could see if i could get
the build to complete.

rday

p.s.  and i *did* apply what appeared to be the obvious regex patch,
but that didn't solve the problem.  curious.  perhaps i just don't
understand the exact syntax to be used.

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