Re: Deprecating non-functional SHAREDSTRINGS build option and xstr(1)

[Anders Magnusson <ragge%tethuvudet.se@localhost>]

Den 2023-05-21 kl. 19:40, skrev Luke Mewburn:
> I'm going to deprecate the build option SHAREDSTRINGS in bsd.prog.mk
> and any other associated build machinery, and probably remove
> xstr(1) too.
>
> Unless, of course, there's an exceptionally good reason to keep this
> non functional feature.
>
>
> Rationale:
>
> 1. The build option SHAREDSTRINGS hasn't worked for at least 16 years,
> and possibly even longer, maybe as far back as 2003-07-22 when
> I added .c.o rules to bsd.sys.mk (so the SHAREDSTRINGS .c.o rules
> in bsd.prog.mk aren't actually being used).
>
> See PR 35964 at
> 	https://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=35964
>
> Even though gnu/dist/bc was replaced with usr.bin/dc, building -current
> still fails (at least in tests/bin/df and other tests/ subdirs that
> build PROG), and the workaround looks ugly.
>
>
> 2. xstr is not a host tool, probably because it doesn't work as a native
> build option.
>
>
> 3. The problem that xstr(1) solves is better solved by modern compilers and
> linkers, which have evolved in the 30+ years that xstr has existed.
>
>
> Thoughts?
Please remove.
The only architecture where I know xstr is something useful is pdp11.
It wasn't of any use (on vax) in the 80's either.

-- Ragge