[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.10.0
Matt Turner
mattst88 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 26 19:36:05 PST 2011
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
<curious at bwv190.internetdsl.tpnet.pl> wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Feb 2011, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>>
>> On 02/26/11 01:20 AM, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski wrote:
>>>>
>>>> xfree86: Drop linux libc5 support from the SIGIO code
>>>
>>> hmm, could this be elaborated?
>>> affects older slackware boxes, etc.
>>
>> Those summaries all come from git, so to get more details, simply
>> look at the commit in git:
>>
>>
>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=47c91dca8d8eecb429123e8370302831bcd57938
>
> thanx.
> personally i do not think this code breaks anything for normal users,
> it does not introduce bloat - it's ifdef,
>
> so why remove it? even if 'defunct', it's at least in correct
> place.
What could possibly be correct about running libc5 in 2011?
If you want to run libc5 or Linux 1.2, fine, but an equivalently
ancient version of xfree86 should go along with it.
Matt
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