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[Tommy Boatman <tboatman_smgl AT live.com>]

I'm in the middle of rebuilding my systems with --as-needed and not encountering any issues related to it thus far.  I’ll provide a complete report once it’s done, and then spin up the prometheus systems to further test randomly.  The current system is built against the master git of a few weeks ago.

 

I have found one glitch, not related to –as-needed, with regards to gmp and gawk.  Gawk will use –lmpc –lgmp if it finds mpc linked against gmp (evidenced by the configure log).  Sorcery uses gawk, so when gmp is dispelled for install, the awk commands in sorcery fail (cannot find libgmp.blah.blah).  Resurrecting gmp is the only option at this point.   This brings up a philosophical debate as to whether base tools used by sorcery should be statically linked.  Anyone that recasts/updates gawk after libmpc/gmp are installed can run into this.

 

-tommy

tboatman AT sourcemage.org

 

-----Original Message-----

From: Remko van der Vossen

Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 3:17 PM

To: sm-commit AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: [SM-Commit] Call for testers (was: mouldering development branches)

 

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 04:41:05AM +0900, Remko van der Vossen wrote:

> > On Mi 2014-03-26 17:15:08 +0100, Treeve Jelbert wrote:

> > > I would like to propose that devel-gcc-4.8, devel-icu and devel-libpng-1.6 be

> > > merged immediately into devel-xorg-modular, which can stabliise for a short

> > > period and then merge  devel-xorg-modular to master.

>

> yes, a true solution just isn't going to happen anytime soon. I do

> expect though that --as-needed will help immensely, so maybe we should

> first do a bit more testing with --as-needed amongst ourselves as

> --as-needed may have its own issues with certain spells. And then a

> month or two down the line when hopefully many people have tested

> --as-needed on many spells and thus also have most spells built with

> --as-needed merge all these devel branches into test.

 

So, any takers?? The as-needed option is available in the optimization

menu of devel sorcery. If you're willing to help out and get us to more

recent versions of gcc, icu, libpng and xorg more quickly then please

help us test as-needed on as many spells as possible of what you have

installed.

 

For minimal testing, just switch the option on and continue updating

installed spells as usual, if you want to test some more rebuild some or

all spells on your system.

 

Regards, Remko

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