On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 07:44:48AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
no distro ships elfutils w/out the portability/robustify patches
applied which means no one in the world is testing the tarballs that
the project is releasing. it's ridiculous that both patches continue
to exist as separate branches.
but it seems that i'm the only one of this opinion, so the status quo
isn't going to change.
Actually I agree with at least half of what you are saying. For the next
release (after 0.158 is out) I'll make an effort to merge the robustify
patches to mainline. But the portability branch really is only needed
for ancient toolchains and can contain stuff that is inefficient on a
modern GNU/Linux setup. It isn't used in fedora >= 9 or rhel >= 6 for
example.
Cheers,
Mark