Can't build -CURRENT on 4.7

[Daniel C. Sobral]

Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 11:57:00PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 09:46:07PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
>>
>>>The compiler in 4.7 does not like this:
>>>
>>>    -std=gnu99
>>>
>>>As a result, buildworld of -CURRENT fails
>>>rather early.
>>
>>Committers are not required to support building 5-CURRENT, post
>>5.0-RELEASE on a 4.7 machine.  So this is not grounds to remove the
>>change.  However, someone will probably patch the build system to
>>tolerate it.
>>
> 
> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that this support
> will no longer be _required_ when we have a first release on the
> RELENG_5 (-STABLE) branch.  trb@?

That was my understanding too, alas. Granted, we *must* provide an 
update path from the last 4.x release to the first *stable* 5.x release. 
But I do recall being advised that the core decided to support upgrade 
from *any* 4.x release to 5.0.

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