Hullo again, On Thu, 2015-12-10 at 20:04 +1100, Nick Withers wrote: > Hi all, > > Attached is a patch for master similar to that I posted to the Newlib > mailing list in https://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2015/msg00888.html * > . > > It chases Newlib changes to sys/types.h / sys/select.h and allows us > to use Newlib's sys/select.h directly rather than rolling our own.
This patch would break building master with pre-08184b3 Newlib. Is this a problem? Should it be? How would folk feel about declaring that the master branch, like FreeBSD -CURRENT [1], is "unstable" and subject to changes like this that require the end-user to be on their game? Could we then just have an UPDATING-equivalent and/or mailing list post for changes like this that says "hey, you need to recompile your tools"? ...Or should we invest the time and effort to ensure that maintain backwards-compatibility whereever possible across all branches? I suppose there'd probably need to be releases more regularly to avoid people being somewhat-forced onto master. Other thoughts? [1] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/current-stable.html -- Nick "definitely not trying desperately to avoid having to touch autotools" Withers _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@rtems.org http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
