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Re: Bugzilla and build bugs
From: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:38:47 -0800 (PST)
> Building glibc is particularly fraught with peril, far more so than
> the average package that follows GNU configure conventions.
To be honest this is often GLIBC's fault, and thus is a real bug even
if a so-called "clueless user" ran into the problem.
Not having the correct dependencies, uptodate versions of tools, or
what-have-you are aspects that ought to be checked in the configure
scripts.
Therefore a "stupid user" build failure is often an indication of a
lacking check or verification in glibc itself, and thus a legitimate
bug.
I also recall that the first person who reported the __i686 conflict
was labelled as a stupid user.
Actually, I consider build failures the most critical kind of problem
because it needlessly dwindles your pool of potential testers.