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Date:      Mon, 6 Jul 2009 21:16:17 +0200
From:      Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
To:        Bruce Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Merging a GCC bug fix to RELENG_7 - how?
Message-ID:  <20090706191617.GC35071@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <4A520A69.4010000@incunabulum.net>
References:  <4A520A69.4010000@incunabulum.net>

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On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 03:30:01PM +0100, Bruce Simpson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This GCC bug bites us in the Boost regression tests in a number of places.
> 
> Uh oh, I've stepped on the one-line fix bomb:
>    http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31899
>    http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs?view=rev&revision=129199
> 
> What's funny is that COPYING in the root of that branch is GPLv2, but 
> the affected file's license is GPLv3.
> 
> So what on earth do we do?

the whole change is one line

-    gcc_unreachable ();
+    return *tp;

and according to the dates bugzilla and the repository,
when the patch was submitted the file was still marked as GPLv2.

So I would think that taking the v2 file and the v2 patch
still makes a v2 file, doesn't it ?

cheers
luigi



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