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Re: Remove --disable-versioning
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot com>, <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 15:59:49 +0000
- Subject: Re: Remove --disable-versioning
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On Sat, 7 Sep 2013, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 09/04/2013 11:28 AM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Sep 2013, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> >
> >> The patch is fine, thanks.
> >>
> >> I just wonder whether it deserves a mention in the NEWS file.
> >
> > Given that the --disable-versioning support has been bitrotten for many
> > years, I committed it without a NEWS mention. Though there's also a case
> > for something like the previous entry
> >
> > * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
> > Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
> > before 2.6.
> >
> > for another case where long-bitrotten support for something was removed.
>
> Please add a NEWS entry. While it is true that it was bitrotten, this
> is the definitive point in which the feature was removed and we should
> be clear about that to our users via the NEWS which goes out with the
> release.
I've added an entry:
* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
--disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com