From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Lt75k-000136-EH for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:19:52 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lt75j-00011g-7v for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:19:51 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lt75d-0000xm-Nv for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:19:49 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47418 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lt75d-0000xi-G8 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:19:45 -0400 Received: from c60.cesmail.net ([216.154.195.49]:33639) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lt75d-0000Dz-7r for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:19:45 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO smtprelay2.cesmail.net) ([192.168.1.112]) by c60.cesmail.net with ESMTP; 12 Apr 2009 17:19:44 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.220] (pool-141-151-93-148.phlapa.east.verizon.net [141.151.93.148]) by smtprelay2.cesmail.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B7E1234C6A for ; Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:21:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Pavel Roskin To: grub-devel In-Reply-To: <20090412.005834.202946486.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20090411.012731.101657495.davem@davemloft.net> <1239508413.6491.11.camel@mj> <20090412.005834.202946486.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:19:42 -0400 Message-Id: <1239571182.14481.20.camel@ct> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.5 (2.24.5-1.fc10) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Fix fs modules on sparc64 build with newer gcc X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:19:51 -0000 On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 00:58 -0700, David Miller wrote: > > Actually, changes to configure.ac affect other users as well. Users of > > other architectures would have to run those checks. > > And what kind of problems would that cause? The symbols would > not be found, the test wouldn't pass, and other platforms don't > use the resulting config.h defines as well. Only the sparc64 > build uses this stuff. The only problem that it will slow down the configure script. By the way, the checks for those functions should be done with the target compiler, that is after the second occurrence of CC="$TARGET_CC" in configure.ac. > I always check the status of my tree after running autogen.sh so I > would take care of all of these things. OK, I don't want to search who did it. I hope we'll get rid of this annoyance soon. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin