PowerPC LE configury

[Steven Munroe]

On Tue, 2013-10-01 at 11:06 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 04:08:25PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > > That has some of the essential characteristics of what I want to see,
> > > but details like the abilist variable are too kludgey.
> > > 
> > > I think it makes most sense to first follow through with the ideas Joseph
> > > and I discussed previously about revamping shlib-versions.  Then the new
> > > scheme for abilist files will be a straightforward derivation of that.
> > 
> > Please reconsider.  You're asking me to implement changes to the build
> > machinery that affect all targets.  That really is the purview of a
> > build or global maintainer.  While I might be able to do the work
> > you're asking of me, I know how this dance goes.  Invariably the poor
> > schmuck (that'd be me) who is asked to implement some maintainer's
> > vision for the future gets it all wrong.  After some spins around the
> > review loop, the maintainer is left wondering why he didn't just
> > implement the feature himself.
> 
> I was certainly not asking you to implement this all by yourself.
> My reply was not just for you, but for the whole group.  I'm sorry
> that was not clear.  I mean that we collectively should follow
> through with the plans we already tacitly agreed upon.  Of course,
> the more people pitch in, the sooner it will actually get done.  It
> is the case that I am holding up this bit of your port-specific
> changes for a pending piece of generic build infrastructure change,
> so in that sense an "unfair" burden falls on you.  Sorry, but we
> have to draw the line somewhere or else we just accumulate more
> difficult-to-maintain cruft forever and the build infrastructure
> improvements never happen.  This gives you motivation to harangue
> the rest of us to prioritize that work.
> 

We are against some hard deadlines and can not take the time now to
address your issue. Can we agree to accept Alan patch as is now for a
promise to pitch in on the general solution later?