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Date:      Tue, 23 Jun 2020 16:00:56 -0500
From:      Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>
To:        Tobias Kortkamp <tobik@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ports failing with -fno-common with clang 9/gcc 9
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On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 1:35 AM Tobias Kortkamp <tobik@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2020, at 14:56, Kyle Evans wrote:
> > In any event, I would urge folks to be proactive and identify this
> > stuff, reporting issues upstream and spreading awareness of the
> > impending default change for those projects that may not already be
> > actively aware.
> >
> > On a closing note, I'm just going to kinda drop these patches here for
> > anyone that's willing/able to help make this a collective effort to
> > identify/fix/report problems here; they backport the default
> > -fno-common patch from future-LLVM11 to the base system compiler on a
> > system near you:
> >
> > HEAD: https://people.freebsd.org/~kevans/llvm-fnocommon-head.diff
>
> Can you ask for an exp-run with this patch applied?  There needs
> to be a comprehensive list of failing ports for people to be able
> to work on this.  We see some failing ports because of default
> -fno-common in GCC 10 [1] already.
>
> [1] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=246700

I can, but my only problem in doing so is that I cannot take
responsibility for following up on the issues discovered. I have some
outstanding exp-run that I've dropped the ball on, I'm a bit wobbly on
personally requesting one for this unless some group of people
can/will offer to make sure the issues are fixed so that the exp-run
can actually be completed in a reasonable timeframe.

Thanks,

Kyle Evans



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