Re: Discussion about why GNU/Linux system upgrades cause old programs to break

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
> From: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <[email protected]>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>,  [email protected],  [email protected]
> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:09:13 +0200
> 
> > Maybe I would've even supported e.g. the compiler saying "if you're
> > compiling old code, you may need '-fpermissive'" or such.
> 
> I think that’s a question for Eli: would this have helped?

I don't know.  I explained elsewhere in this thread why assessing what
that option does is not easy, because it is not documented in terms of
warning messages the user sees.  I'm sorry, I don't have time to make
this research ATM.
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