Re: Enabling cwrappers auto-detection

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 03:22:10PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 > 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.

Might be helpful if there were a list somewhere of things that are
missing, then.

I at least thought cwrappers was done modulo testing.

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David A. Holland
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