On 09/15/2015 09:23 PM, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote: > On September 15, 2015 7:39:39 PM GMT+02:00, Mike Stump > <mikest...@comcast.net> wrote: >> On Sep 14, 2015, at 3:37 PM, Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com> wrote: >>>> Maybe GCC-6 can bump the required >>>> dejagnu version to allow for getting rid of all these superfluous >>>> load_gcc_lib? *blink* :) >>> I'd support that as a direction. >>> >>> Certainly dropping the 2001 version from our website in favor of 1.5 >> (which is what I'm using anyway) would be a step forward. >> >> So, even ubuntu LTS is 1.5 now. No harm in upgrading the website to >> 1.5. I don’t know of any reason to not update and just require 1.5 at >> this point. I’m not a fan of feature chasing dejagnu, but an update >> every 2-4 years isn’t unreasonable. >> >> So, let’s do it this way… Any serious and compelling reason to not >> update to 1.5? If none, let’s update to 1.5 in another week or two, if >> no serious and compelling reasons not to. >> >> My general plan is, slow cycle updates on dejagnu, maybe every 2 years. >> LTS style releases should have the version in it before the requirement >> is updated. I take this approach as I think this should be the maximal >> change rate of things like make, gcc, g++, ld, if possible. > > Yea, although this means that 1.5.3 (a Version with the libdirs tweak) being > just 5 months old will have to wait another bump, I fear. For my part going > to plain 1.5 is useless WRT the load_lib situation. I see no value in > conditionalizing simplified libdir handling on a lucky user with recentish > stuff so i'm just waiting another 2 or 4 years for this very minor cleanup.
is this libdirs tweak backportable to 1.5.1 (Debian stable), or 1.5 (Ubuntu LTS)?
