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Re: Clean up glibc manual references to "GNU system" (bug 6911)


El 18 de febrer de 2012 13:07, Joseph S. Myers
<joseph@codesourcery.com> ha escrit:
>> A bigger priority for us is merging changes to code outside of
>> sysdeps/. ÂCurrently we have to add very ugly kludges [1] in sysdeps/
>> directory because of the current "anti-portability" policy that
>> applies to Glibc mainline.
>
> There is no such policy (beyond the requirements that supported systems
> use ELF, support TLS, etc.), but to keep the code simple we may avoid
> conditionals that are not relevant to any port currently in libc or ports
> - hence the recommendation is to submit the libc changes at the same time
> as the port itself, so we can see the full context and judge what the best
> approach is for a portability issue.

I might have been mistaken then.  How do we proceed with that?  Send a
full patch with all sysdep additions?

-- 
Robert Millan


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