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

[Kurt@OpenLDAP.org]

For Klaus's benefit.

Begin forwarded message:
> From: Kurt Zeilenga <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>
> Date: December 29, 2008 11:01:08 AM PST
> To: manu@netbsd.org
> Cc: openldap-its@openldap.org
> Subject: Re: (ITS#5875) sparc64/gcc-3.3 build fix
>
>
> On Dec 28, 2008, at 10:37 PM, manu@netbsd.org wrote:
>
>> 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. "
>
> One would also need an appropriate "rights statement".  See http://www.openldap.org/devel/contributing.html 
> .
>
> -- Kurt