xorg-server-1.14.1.902 - build error

[Matt Dew]

On 06/26/2013 01:20 AM, Chris Clayton wrote:
> On 06/21/13 21:14, Keith Packard wrote:
>> Matt Dew <marcoz at osource.org> writes:
>>
>>> Thanks Chris.
>>>
>>>     Keith, I can't just apply patches in the stable branch though
>>>     right?
>>
>> You can, but as this code is also broken on master, it's best to have it
>> committed to master and then cherry-picked to the stable branch.
>>
>> I'll merge it to master in a day or so (to give other people time to see
>> it and potentially review it).
>>
>
> I see that 1.14.2 has been released without any of the above happening.
> That's no big deal, but Matt's statement in the release notice "that
> this release doesn't work with gcc 4.8-snapshot" is a bit misleading. As
> I reported, it won't *build* with gcc-4.8 snapshot. Once my patch is
> applied, it builds fine and, from my experience over the last two weeks,
> it works fine too.

Hi Chris,
   I didn't feel there was enough time to properly bake that patch so I 
didn't include it in 1.14.2.

    It wasn't my intent to be misleading but to me, in this regard, 'not 
building' is the same as 'doesn't work'.

Matt



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> Chris
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