[csw-maintainers] Should X11 headers from Sun be remove from the farm ?

[Peter FELECAN]

William Bonnet <william at wbonnet.net> writes:

> Hi
>
>> This is something that we need to do sometimes even though painful and
>> doesn't represent a sufficient reason to alter the build stack
>> radically. Also, writing autoconf macros et al to adapt to our
>> environment would be nicer and more reliable. This is, IMHO, the road to
>> follow.
>>   
> Sure, i still in agree in perfect world view :)
>
> In every day life, it creates a lot of not so useful work, especially
> when packaging project which refuses most of the patches sent upstream
> because Solaris is not "officially" supported (it means work has to be
> redone often).

Sure, this is why I spent yesterday 2 not so useful hours to patch code
that compiled fine with gcc, ss12 but not ss11. C'est la vie, isn't it?
-- 
Peter