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

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

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

From: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: misc-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
    netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: re: misc/54581: Issues building NetBSD-9 under NetBSD-5.2
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 06:50:36 +1000

 > Is this the proper approach to fixing these kinds of issues?  If so, should
 > I commit these fixes once the build is working successfully?
 [ ... ]
 
 > Index: debug.h
 > ===================================================================
 > RCS file: /cvsroot/src/external/cddl/osnet/dist/uts/common/sys/debug.h,v
 
 i would expect to find patches for this in src/tools/compat
 so that any code using newer netbsd features gets covered,
 rather than each instance having compat code.
 
 eg, see how _DIAGASSERT() is handled.
 
 thanks.
 
 
 .mrg.