Re: gcc12 incompatible with ctfconvert?

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%mnx.io@localhost>]

* On 2023-10-03 at 19:34 BST, Rhialto wrote:

> On Tue 03 Oct 2023 at 17:01:20 +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > Does it actually work in any sane way? Does gdb support CTF? It is not
> > documented.
>
> I don't know. The ctwm upstream wants to use CTF to support DTrace.
> It does that if it detects ctfconvert and ctfmerge.
> Using gcc12 as compiler breaks this. We have to fix this one way or
> another.
>
> The latest version of the proposed patch enables _OPSYS_SUPPORTS_CTF
> only .if exists(/usr/bin/ctfconvert); that same condition is already
> used to set TOOLS_PLATFORM.ctfconvert (or not).

Your patch for _OPSYS_SUPPORTS_CTF seems reasonable.  I'd add that, and 
separately patch out any calls to ctfconvert/ctfmerge from ctwm's 
Makefiles.

That will also help illumos, which does not use ctfmerge.

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