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Re: [PATCH] config.mak.uname: update settings for FreeBSD

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Brad Smith <brad@comstyle.com>
Date
Jun 12, 2025, 03:54 UTC
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On 2025-06-11 11:47 p.m., Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Brad Smith <brad@comstyle.com> writes:
>
>> FreeBSD 6.0 has memmem().
> And anything older than that no longer matters?
I look at is as so. 6.0 is 19.5 years old as it is.
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> That may indeed be true (6.0 was from Nov 2005), but if that is the
> reason why we simply lose NO_MEMMEM (instead of conditionally losing
> for 6.0 and newer), that needs to be explained in the proposed log
> message, together with the reason why we no longer do anything
> special with version "4.x" (which could be "We ditch the support for
> anything older than 6.0").
>
> Assuming that our stance is "anything older than 6.0 no longer
> matters", the patch itself looks good.
This was my intent. I'll update the commit message.
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Message 5 of 6 in “config.mak.uname: update settings for FreeBSD”
  1. config.mak.uname: update settings for FreeBSDBrad Smith, Jun 12, 2025
  2. Collin FunkJun 12, 2025
  3. Brad SmithJun 12, 2025
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 12, 2025
  5. Brad SmithJun 12, 2025
  6. Renato BotelhoJul 3, 2025

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