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Re: (ITS#5875) sparc64/gcc-3.3 build fix



Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> wrote:

> > NetBSD's pkgsrc has a 5 years old OpenLDAP patch that address a build
> > problem on sparc64 with gcc 3.x (x<= 3). The build failure is caused by
> > a bug in gcc.
> >
> > I think it would not hurt to commit this patch in OpenLDAP CVS:
> > everything is guarded by macros, so it cannot cause any harm to
> > unaffected systems, and the workaround has been tested by NetBSD people
> > for 5 years.
> 
> Kurt will probably have something to say about this too - this is more than a
> couple-line patch, it needs to be submitted by its original author, with
> appropriate rights attributions etc.

Klaus Klein <kleink@kleink.org> is the contributor (I added him to the
recipients of this messages).

Do we need anything more than an e-mail with the patch and the excerpt
below correctly filled?

"This patch file is derived from OpenLDAP Software. All of the
modifications to OpenLDAP Software represented in the following
patch(es) were developed by <YOUR NAME> <YOUR-EMAIL-ADDRESS>. I have not
assigned rights and/or interest in this work to any party. "

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
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