Re: [PATCH] libtool: remove OpenBSD support for non-shared and a.out archs

Hi All

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 16 Jan 2024 21:11, Brad Smith wrote:
>> libtool: remove OpenBSD support for non-shared and a.out archs
>>
>> OpenBSD stopped supporting the last non-shared arch 8 years ago
>> and stopped supporting a.out 10.5 years ago.
This cannot be reason to drop support.
For instance RHEL was release in 2011 and is still supported.

> i'm on the fence here, and i don't know what historical guidance/policy
> libtool has had.  i looked through HACKING & the manual and didn't find
> anything relevant.
Some projects still support c89.
How long to support a functionality is good question.
When hardware die some legacy system have no other options  expect to switch to new releases. If exist one ...

> yeah, that's an old target, but libtool supports things older than that.
> -mike

Regards,
Roumen Petrov