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Re: [patches] [PATCH 1/1] Makefile: split out explicit and implicit rules as required by
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [patches] [PATCH 1/1] Makefile: split out explicit and implicit rules as required by
- From: Philip Prindeville <philipp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 08:28:50 -0700
On 6/13/11 8:15 AM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> This patch looks like a backport of FSF glibc commit
> 32cf40699346d37fabfa887bbd95e95004799ae1. In such cases you should make
> sure you do backport the patch as exactly as possible - and that your
> ChangeLog.eglibc entry includes that from FSF glibc to preserve
> accreditation to the original author.
>
> Which branches have this issue? The general EGLIBC practice is that if a
> bug fix is applied on a release branch it's also applied on all subsequent
> affected release branches - although FSF glibc doesn't always follow that,
> so this may not apply to fixes merged from there.
>
I wasn't aware it had already been fixed, since I was seeing it in 2.8, 2.9, and 2.12.
There was no accreditation since I was writing it from scratch.