On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 at 11:18, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely....@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 at 09:42, David Brown wrote: > > Just to be clear - I am not in any way suggesting that this situation is > > the fault of any gcc developers. If configure scripts are failing > > because they rely on poor C code or inappropriate use of gcc (code that > > requires a particular C standard should specify it - gcc has the "-std=" > > flags for that purpose), then the maintainers of those scripts should > > fix them. If Fedora won't build just because the C compiler insists C > > code is written in C, then the Fedora folk need to fix their build system. > > It's not Fedora's build system, it's the packages in Fedora's build > systems.
English makes that sentence ambiguous. What I mean is that it's the build systems (plural) of the packages (plural) in Fedora. Not the build system of Fedora. That isn't even written in C, it's mostly Python IIUC. > Lots of them. And those same packages are in every other > Linux distro, so everybody needs to fix them.
