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Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation de
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Zack Weinberg |
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Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults? |
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Thu, 10 Nov 2022 22:33:08 -0500 |
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On Thu, Nov 10, 2022, at 10:08 PM, Sam James wrote:
>> On 10 Nov 2022, at 21:10, Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com> wrote:
>> While everyone else is discussing big ideas, it would be helpful for me
>> personally if autoconf just made a release with the latest bugfixes.
>
> Before I dive into the rest of this thread: yes, this is one of
> my main thoughts on the matter. Autoconf has a huge network
> effect problem and letting the existing fixes start to propagate
> would be most helpful.
It would be relatively easy for me to take a couple hours this weekend and put
out a 2.72 release with everything that's already in trunk and nothing else.
Anyone have reasons I _shouldn't_ do that?
> Note that in autoconf git, we've also got
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/commit/?id=f6657256a37da44c987c04bf9cd75575dfca3b60
> which is going to affect time_t efforts too
I have not been following the y2038 work closely. Is it going to affect things
in a good way or a bad way??
zw
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, (continued)
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Rich Felker, 2022/11/10
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Paul Eggert, 2022/11/10
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Michael Orlitzky, 2022/11/10
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Sam James, 2022/11/11
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Paul Eggert, 2022/11/11
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Sam James, 2022/11/11
Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Sam James, 2022/11/11