compile error

[Rob Landley]

On Monday 24 September 2007 9:28:09 am cckuo wrote:
> Dear all:
> Due to Rob's suggestion, I choose 0.9.28 instead of 0.9.27 for
> cross-compiling this time.

Of course, when upgrading, you should avoid the latest version at all costs to 
leave open the possibility you're hitting a bug we've already fixed.

http://busybox.net/FAQ.html#backporting

I'm sorry I wasn't clearer earlier.  I keep assuming people already know this 
stuff:

If the bug is still there in the current version, we're interested in 
diagnosing it and coming up with a patch, which may apply to the old version.  
If it's fixed in the new version, the problem becomes figuring out which 
patch fixed it, for which we have an svn archive.  If you don't even look at 
the most recent release, there's a very real chance we already fixed it and 
you're asking us to reinvent the wheel.

If it was fixed _since_ the most recent release (in source control only), then 
it should be recent enough that we remember it.  (If that's not the case, 
then we screwed up and let too long go by between releases.)

This is the way volunteer open source development works, regardless of which 
project you're talking about.

Rob
-- 
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
  - Ken Thompson.