On 02/13/2017 05:45 AM, Justin Forbes wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 8:58 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> No big deal for me, nevertheless a quick question: Until a year or two
>> ago that didn't happen: The spec file had a few tricks to apply some of
>> the patches (for example those that fix know build/compiler problems)
>> all the time. That was lost when the spec file switched to using "git am
>> %{patches}" to apply patches.
>>
>> Was that intentional? Laura, Justin: Would you be open to reintroduce
>> and use a similar method that would apply certain patches all the time?
>> If yes I'd might look into this sooner or later, as it would make my
>> life easier.
>>
>> CU, knurd
>
> No, it was not intentional that I am aware of. just something that no
> one seemed to notice until now because build issues are fairly rare
> these days. I would be open to reintroducing something to apply
> patches here.
>
We do apply some of the patches like kbuild-AFTER_LINK.patch always.
I just didn't think about that when I applied the gcc patch. FWIW,
a real fix should be in Linus' master branch now so it should compile
cleanly. Sorry about the trouble.
Thanks,
Laura
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