Re: misc/54581: Issues building NetBSD-9 under NetBSD-5.2

[Kamil Rytarowski <n54%gmx.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR misc/54581; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kamil Rytarowski <n54%gmx.com@localhost>
To: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: misc/54581: Issues building NetBSD-9 under NetBSD-5.2
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 03:36:37 +0200

 On 29.09.2019 03:16, Robert Elz wrote:
 >     Date:        Sat, 28 Sep 2019 19:30:01 +0000 (UTC)
 >     From:        Kamil Rytarowski <n54%gmx.com@localhost>
 >     Message-ID:  <20190928193001.B3A9B7A245%mollari.NetBSD.org@localhost>
 >
 >   |  Is there any reason to pick this legacy form instead of the current=
  one?
 >
 > Have all the fixes to the broken __CTASSERT uses (the ones that needed
 > fixing for the build to work with the current __CTASSERT()) been pullled
 > up to everything that it is possible to build and which contained the
 > broken versions?
 >
 
 Pulled up to -9? No and I do not plan to do it.
 
 > If not, using the old one (or simply a dummy do-nothing version) when
 > building on an ancient system which has no __CTASSERT() at all) is going
 > to be needed.
 >
 > kre
 >
 
 If we want to commit new code it is better to add __CTASSERT(9) in new
 style to HEAD and submit pull-request with a different version for -9.