Alexander Grund

Looks like https://sources.easybuild.io is down which is why tests fail

Small ping here. The change looks good as is to me and provides what is needed. The last 2 points are renaming start_dir to startdir in ECs, right? I'd suggest...

This came up during development of a fix for a bug in the CI checks, see: https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/15973 Basically the function `collect_exts_file_info` returns a dict where the `patches` are included but...

> In 2004 a couple of new functions were added to the API. Well then there should have been a version added in 2004. > You are proposing a solution...

> Any version other than the latest release us unsupported. I think you got it the wrong way round. I was talking about users supporting to use an older release...

> If the API has remained un-changed for the last several releases why does this even matter? - To find out if he is using the latest version - To...

> Also remember that the header and the library binary may be out of sync. True. But if they are installed together this is unlikely. > Which bugs? Example: https://github.com/erikd/libsamplerate/issues/11...

> The problem is when people mix locally installed and package installed libraries and headers. Well if they somehow manage to get `/opt/src/include/samplerate.h` together with `/usr/local/lib/libsamplerate.a` then whatever. Can't account...

> It is still completely un-necessary because the libsamplerate API (and in fact application binary interface, with the exception of some added functions) has remained un-changed since its first release....

The left shift will run into UB if the range of an int is reached. Interestingly this UB makes it produce the expected `SAL` O.o The right shift is... interesting....