From: Kurt Zeilenga <Kurt(a)OpenLDAP.org&gt; Date: December 29, 2008 11:01:08 AM PST To: manu(a)netbsd.org Cc: openldap-its(a)openldap.org Subject: Re: (ITS#5875) sparc64/gcc-3.3 build fix On Dec 28, 2008, at 10:37 PM, manu(a)netbsd.org wrote: > Howard Chu <hyc(a)symas.com&gt; wrote: > >>> NetBSD's pkgsrc has a 5 years old OpenLDAP patch that address a >>> build >>> problem on sparc64 with gcc 3.x (x<= 3). The build failure is >>> caused by >>> a bug in gcc. >>> >>> I think it would not hurt to commit this patch in OpenLDAP CVS: >>> everything is guarded by macros, so it cannot cause any harm to >>> unaffected systems, and the workaround has been tested by NetBSD >>> people >>> for 5 years. >> >> Kurt will probably have something to say about this too - this is >> more than a >> couple-line patch, it needs to be submitted by its original >> author, with >> appropriate rights attributions etc. > > Klaus Klein <kleink(a)kleink.org&gt; is the contributor (I added him to > the > recipients of this messages). > > Do we need anything more than an e-mail with the patch and the > excerpt > below correctly filled? > > "This patch file is derived from OpenLDAP Software. All of the > modifications to OpenLDAP Software represented in the following > patch(es) were developed by <YOUR NAME> <YOUR-EMAIL-ADDRESS>. I > have not > assigned rights and/or interest in this work to any party. " One would also need an appropriate "rights statement". See http://www.openldap.org/devel/contributing.html . -- Kurt