Re: Enabling cwrappers auto-detection

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 09:18:08AM -0400, Amitai Schleier wrote:
> On Oct 10, 2016, at 8:10 AM, Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost> wrote:
> > 
> > As discussed, we would like to enable cwrappers for platforms where we
> > know it works and there is a real benefit from using them.
> 
> I'm happy to see this, but also wondering how we'll know when it's the
> right time to enable cwrappers by default on other platforms. Sorry if
> I missed the discussion, but why not simply enable by default across
> the board? That gives us a few months to fix anything terrible, and
> worst case we can flip an individual platform back for the next branch.

There is currently simply no support for some of the arcane platform
logic like the AIX runpath transformations. As such, it simply won't
work properly. ELF systems should generally work or at least only
require minor changes, but if you look at mk/wrapper, there are a lot of
files and lots of non-gccish compilers.

Joerg