I bet getting this to compile was more of a headache than manually patching it. This component - being old itself - probably has tons of dependencies on even ol

I bet getting this to compile was more of a headache than manually patching it. This component - being old itself - probably has tons of dependencies on even older libraries. Code in its teens would need a lot of cleanup to be built (and work) with a modern optimizing compiler and recreating ancient build environment isn't simple either. They did the cost/benefit analysis before fixing a bug.