From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 23:26:20 +0100
> On 11/24/2016 11:05 PM, Aaro Koskinen wrote: >> I think that's your job to try. If you want to "add 64-bit support" >> (instead of forcing it to everybody), do the required changes so that >> it's still works for everybody without extra fiddling. > > Don't be so rude, I'm not forcing anything onto anyone. > >>>> Also you broke the tilo build... >>> >>> Not here. Just tried it again and it builds fine. Can you be more specific? >> >> The same issue as with silo. > > Don't you think your statements are a bit misleading then? I didn't break > anything, > I changed the default target to 64-bit which is somewhat reasonable in the > year > 2016, isn't it. Not really. Many people, including myself, are still using predominantly 32-bit userspace on sparc64 machines. It is significantly faster, and for me speed is really important. So submitting a patch which breaks a common build environment is really not acceptable.
