On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 8:12 PM, brian m. carlson <sand...@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:53:35AM -0800, Reuben Hawkins wrote: >> CLOCK_MONOTONIC isn't available on RHEL3, but there are still RHEL3 >> systems being used in production. This change makes compiling git >> less tedious on older platforms. > > While I'm not opposed to this change, I expect that you'll find there's > lots of subtle breakage when trying to compile (and run the testsuite > for) git on RHEL 3. I've spoken up before to prevent breakage on > RHEL/CentOS 5 (since $DAYJOB still supports it), but I'm not sure > anyone's looking out for something as old as RHEL 3. I expect you'll > probably have some pain points with perl and curl, among others.
Yes, there are pain points with perl and curl. Those I've disable with other compile options when building on RHEL3, but reducing the number of options I have to set manually and increasing the number of automatic checks with configure is helpful. Sometime over the next few days I'll submit a v2 of the patches with Eric's comments taken into account. > -- > brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US > +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only > OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
