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Re: PowerPC LE configury


> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 04:08:25PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > That has some of the essential characteristics of what I want to see,
> > but details like the abilist variable are too kludgey.
> > 
> > I think it makes most sense to first follow through with the ideas Joseph
> > and I discussed previously about revamping shlib-versions.  Then the new
> > scheme for abilist files will be a straightforward derivation of that.
> 
> Please reconsider.  You're asking me to implement changes to the build
> machinery that affect all targets.  That really is the purview of a
> build or global maintainer.  While I might be able to do the work
> you're asking of me, I know how this dance goes.  Invariably the poor
> schmuck (that'd be me) who is asked to implement some maintainer's
> vision for the future gets it all wrong.  After some spins around the
> review loop, the maintainer is left wondering why he didn't just
> implement the feature himself.

I was certainly not asking you to implement this all by yourself.
My reply was not just for you, but for the whole group.  I'm sorry
that was not clear.  I mean that we collectively should follow
through with the plans we already tacitly agreed upon.  Of course,
the more people pitch in, the sooner it will actually get done.  It
is the case that I am holding up this bit of your port-specific
changes for a pending piece of generic build infrastructure change,
so in that sense an "unfair" burden falls on you.  Sorry, but we
have to draw the line somewhere or else we just accumulate more
difficult-to-maintain cruft forever and the build infrastructure
improvements never happen.  This gives you motivation to harangue
the rest of us to prioritize that work.


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