Re: Overhauling gcc.mk

["David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>]

On Tue, 2023-10-24 at 13:46 +0100, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> * On 2023-10-24 at 08:47 BST, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> 
> > * On 2023-10-24 at 04:28 BST, David H. Gutteridge wrote:
> > 
> > > I did wonder if ultimately we want to move other OS-specific
> > > fragments
> > > into their platform file, too, e.g.:
> > > https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/pkgsrc/blob/5a6b106903f2a7925062130280a705dde2b8ee94/mk/compiler/gcc-reqd.mk#L276
> > 
> > Yeh I'd like to do that too, I just need to figure out a way that it
> > can be indicated appropriately, as mk/platform won't have access to 
> > the _NEED_* settings to override them.  Some sort of list of
> > GCC_TOXIC 
> > pattern matches and then enhance gcc-reqd.mk to handle them.
> 
> Actually, thinking it through, it doesn't need anything like that,
> I've 
> done it with this instead:
> 
>   
> https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/commit/d3dd470d5a914c362771e159f723c86c77118a63

Yes, that's how I'd imagined it too, thanks. Sorry, I lost track of this
topic. I should do some more testing on an older NetBSD release.

Cheers,

Dave