Re: RELENG_6 Kernel doesn't build due to DEVFS

From: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie_at_le-hen.org>
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 03:57:33 +0100
Robert,

> Sorry about the delay in responding to this, just found your e-mail while 
> starting to catch up on some older ones.  The tweak below fixes a bug in 
> which valid syntax was not accepted by the computer.  This was followed by 
> several commits that introduced that valid syntax into the source tree, 
> meaning that the tree would not build with an older compiler due to the 
> older compiler incorrectly rejecting it as invalid.  Ideally, commits to 
> update the compiler are made, and then after some longish delay (a few 
> weeks), the source code is updated to make use of new compiler features. 
> In this case, the changes came in close proximity, resulting in a few more 
> stubbed toes.

No problem for the delay, thank you very much, you are very obliging.

Best regards,
-- 
Jeremie Le Hen
< jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >
Received on Tue Nov 08 2005 - 01:57:58 UTC

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