]] Bojan Smojver
| On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 09:27 +0100, Joe Orton wrote:
| In the past I have argued we should never do runtime platform feature
| detection, i.e., if accept4() works at build-time, we can presume it
| works at run-time. I think I need to soften that position now; use of
| a
On Sun, 2009-07-19 at 08:18 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
Since I'm one of those Debian people who wanted the runtime detection
in the past: No, we can't do that.
The apr (and all other packages) are built by build daemons on various
different architectures. We, as the packagers of apr,
2009-07-19 13:36:17 Bojan Smojver napisał(a):
On Sun, 2009-07-19 at 08:18 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
Since I'm one of those Debian people who wanted the runtime detection
in the past: No, we can't do that.
The apr (and all other packages) are built by build daemons on various
]] Bojan Smojver
(no need to Cc me, I read the list, as my Mail-Followup-To says.)
| Sorry, still not convinced. If a particular build system sucks, be that
| whichever distribution, then the build system should be fixed. I do not
| see why everyone should be penalised at run time for someone
On Sun, 2009-07-19 at 21:52 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
Not doing run-time detection means that everybody using Debian and
derived distros (including Ubuntu) will get the castrated version
where any and all features of new kernel versions are not used, so not
doing runtime detection also has
