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Re: Remove --disable-versioning
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 16:52:15 -0400
- Subject: Re: Remove --disable-versioning
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On 09/07/2013 11:59 AM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Sep 2013, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>
>> On 09/04/2013 11:28 AM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
>>> On Wed, 4 Sep 2013, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>>>
>>>> The patch is fine, thanks.
>>>>
>>>> I just wonder whether it deserves a mention in the NEWS file.
>>>
>>> Given that the --disable-versioning support has been bitrotten for many
>>> years, I committed it without a NEWS mention. Though there's also a case
>>> for something like the previous entry
>>>
>>> * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
>>> Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
>>> before 2.6.
>>>
>>> for another case where long-bitrotten support for something was removed.
>>
>> Please add a NEWS entry. While it is true that it was bitrotten, this
>> is the definitive point in which the feature was removed and we should
>> be clear about that to our users via the NEWS which goes out with the
>> release.
>
> I've added an entry:
>
> * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
> --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
Excellent, looks perfect.
c.