[PATCH] Don't add nis subdir for new architectures
Florian Weimer
fw@deneb.enyo.de
Tue Jul 17 10:42:00 GMT 2018
* Andreas Schwab:
> On Jul 17 2018, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
>
>> * Andreas Schwab:
>>
>>> For future architectures, sysdeps/unix/inet no longer implies building the
>>> nis subdirectory, and --enable-obsolete-nsl is ignored.
>>
>> I think we should remove --enable-obsolete-rpc and
>> --enable-obsolete-nsl altogether,
>
> Feel free to submit a patch. That is an independent change.
Conceptually it's not. If there are distributions which still want to
build the old interfaces, with your patch, they will not be able to
build newer glibc versions for the affected architectures. That's why
I think we need consensus first whether distributions still need those
configure options.
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