Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2022, #03; Thu, 13)

[David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 11:15 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I ran into the c99 test balloon. I get the (expected?) c99 build
> > errors and an uncompress2 build error with RHEL7.9's stock gcc 4.8.5.
> >
> > Are we dropping support for RHEL7.9?
>
> No.  Our expectation is that those who care about various distros
> and platforms supply patches like ...
>
> > Using NO_UNCOMPRESS2=YesPlease and CFLAGS += -std=c99 in config.mak
>
> ... this, but not locallly but to config.mak.uname, to help the
> users and builders on their favorite systems.  It is better done
> sooner rather than later.
>
> > works but I'm not sure if we actually expect users to deal with those
> > details themselves.
>
> Users would not have to, as long as somebody else on the list uses
> the smea system as theirs cares enough to supply such patches to
> config.mak.uname.
>
> > Sorry for being out of the loop on the plan for older toolchains, but
> > I wasn't sure if we should be expecting a patch that configures the
> > default flags so that things build out of the box again or if this is
> > considered the new status quo and we're okay regressing?
>
> Obviously the former.  This is a team effort and everybody who finds
> new issues is very appreciated to chip in.
>


Thanks for verifying; patch sent. A simple $(uname_R) check worked for me
so hopefully that's not too much cruft to carry around for a few years.

cheers,
-- 
David