Re: [PATCH 2/3] configure.ac,trace.c: check for CLOCK_MONOTONIC

[Reuben Hawkins <reubenhwk@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 8:12 PM, brian m. carlson
<sandals@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.

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