Re: regtests for previous stables failing

[David Kastrup]

Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:

> But in the light of David's last mail I revived my old LilyDev3 which has:
> $ make --version && gcc --version
> GNU Make 3.81
> Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
> There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
> PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
> This program built for i486-pc-linux-gnu
> gcc (Debian 4.7.2-5) 4.7.2
> Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
> All worked there.
>
> Obviously David was right about the make-version. Do we need to fix
> something? At least with more current code all is working as well.
>
> The results of the exercise at
> https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/5217/#ae0c/7c60/8bbe
> ff

It's a bit tricky.  Maybe we should cherry-pick the necessary
compatibility patches to the stable branches' tips?  If you want to
bisect, you'd need to skim them in as well, I guess.

-- 
David Kastrup