Re: keep support for gcc 2.95 in NetBSD 1.6.x?

[Klaus Heinz <k.heinz.dez.sechs%kh-22.de@localhost>]

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 12:20:00AM +0100, Klaus Heinz wrote:
> > are we supposed to keep existing patches for compatibility with gcc 2.95?
> 
> As other platforms lack C99 compilers, it would be appreciated.

Ah, you want to say that we should keep the package buildable with gcc
2.95 because that's the only compiler available on some platforms?

> It is not a hard requirement, e.g. if the patches don't apply cleanly
> anymore and it is not easy to determine wether or not they are still
> needed, I feel that removing them is acceptable.

This is the crucial point. There are some patches for compatibility with
gcc 2.95 but they do not apply anymore and I would have to build with
this compiler to identify how to change them and whether there are new
patches necessary.

Can we even build with gcc 2.95, say on a NetBSD-3 system? Linking with
C++ libraries built with gcc >=3 would definitely not work, so almost
everything would have to be built with gcc 2.95.

I really hesitate to install NetBSD 1.6.x in qemu just to keep those
patches.

ciao
     Klaus