Re: release?

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Fred!

On Thu, 5 Jan 2023 19:49:50 -0800 (PST)
Fred Wright <fw@fwright.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Jan 2023, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> 
> > I think the last hurdle to a release is passed.  A fix for the
> > OPenBSD 7 link problem has been found, and applied.  The patch is
> > guarded for just OpenBSD7, so should not affect other distros:
> >
> > +    if config.env['target_platform'].startswith('openbsd7'):
> > +        # as of 5 Jan 23:
> > +        # scons 4.4.0 with clang 13.0.0 has trouble determining
> > clang version.
> > +        # Then fails to add -fPIC.  So we force it here:
> > +        config.env.Append(CCFLAGS=['fPIC'])
> >
> > scons 4.4.0 can not figure out what version that clang 13.0.0 is.
> > So it failed to add the link flag -fPIC.  Easy to fix, right?  No.
> >
> > Turns out that LDFLAGS does different things to scons when on the
> > command line, or in SConscript.  I think this comment describes
> > the issue:
> >
> > +# scons uses gcc, or clang, to link. Thus LDFLAGS does not serve
> > its +# traditional function of providing arguments to ln. LDFLAGS
> > set in the +# environment before running scons get moved into
> > CCFLAGS by scons. +# LDFLAGS set while running scons get ignored.
> > +#
> > +# This means all uses of LDFLAG in this file ae simply dead code.
> > Cruft +# to be removed at a later date.
> >
> > As this only applies to OpenBSD 7, I'll make the test window really
> > short. Test now.  If there is silence I'll release Friday.  
> 
> There are a number of puzzling things about this issue, though I
> guess with the narrow applicability they can wait until after the
> release to sort out.

Questions are always in order.  What is puzzling?

RGDS
GARY
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