On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 02:21:47AM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > [CCing bug-gnulib. We work in public; please avoid private email if > there is a mailing list.]
Sorry, I'll keep that in mind. > Thomas Klausner wrote: > > Hi Bruno! > > > > I just updated m4 in pkgsrc to 1.4.19 and noticed that I could remove > > almost all patches. Thank you for that! > > > > Then I thought I'd point out the remaining ones to you in the hope we > > can get rid of those as well. > > > > The first one is ancient, in pkgsrc since at least 2013; it's for the > > NetBSD vax port. I don't know more than that about it. jklos committed > > it, so perhaps he has more details. > > > > The other one is more recent and was committed as a "fix for QNX". js > > committed it and might know more. > > > [2 patches from > > http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/m4/patches/] > > Thanks Thomas for the pointer. > > Regarding NetBSD/vax support, I won't act because > 1) the patch does not give background information, > 2) I guess that this platform is in the same category as > > https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/Unsupported-Platforms.html > and all CPUs that were designed later than DEC alpha support > IEEE 854 well, including NaNs. After jklos' message, I've removed this patch from pkgsrc. > Regarding the strerror-override module: There is indeed the possibility > that strerror-override.c gets compiled even though strerror_override is > defined as a macro. > > Fixing it like this. A separate macro is used so that config.h files can do > #define strerror_override libfoo_strerror_override > (when cleaning up the namespace of symbols exported by a library libfoo). Thanks! Thomas
