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Re: How to cope with patches sanely



martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> writes:

> also sprach Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> [2008.01.27.0323 +1100]:
>>   For example when you need different series of patches per
>> architecture (the libc e.g. has specific hurd patches).
>
> Wouldn't this be handled better with preprocessor #ifdefs? I'd say
> it would make the code clearer and more maintainable. But then
> again, I have none (read: zero) experience with this sort of
> challenge.

If the arch-specific patches don't have #ifdefs, it also hinders
pushing the patch upstream, so I think if the patches can't be applied
for every build there's a problem with them right there.


Regards,
Roger

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