Re: Compiling ncurses-6.1 on OpenBSD

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 01:13:11PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2019/12/25 16:23, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > Since my message to address@hidden was ignored,
> > I'll have to assume that they're not interested in discussing it,
> > and will keep in mind to document it as a pitfall in upcoming releases.
> 
> The toolchain isn't my area, but I suspect there's little enthusiasm
> for fixing a gcc-related problem especially one reported on amd64 - it's
> pretty much only still built there so that developers have an easy way
> to run it if they need to fix things in the base OS on the non-clang
> platforms which many developers don't have direct access to.
> 
> If the problem remains with /usr/bin/cc (which is clang on
> amd64/i386/arm/aarch64/mips64) then it would be useful to include the
> full steps to repeat the problem - the script is mentioned but not
> included in the address@hidden mail.

I took a quick look at the clang (cc) build, but don't see that problem.
I haven't investigated the i386 configuration for a while - probably should...

> > > > > I revisited this, and can see half of the problem, which offers a 
> > > > > different
> > > > > workaround.  Comparing the specs files for the compiler in 6.2 and 
> > > > > 6.5,
> > > > > I see that someone added a fallback for -L/usr/lib, apparently to 
> > > > > compensate
> > > > > for some other change.
> 
> The commit log was "Pass -L/usr/lib to the linker in preparation for
> switching to lld, which does not have a default search path."
> 

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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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