Re: Is *anyone* using pkgsrc on IRIX?

[maya%NetBSD.org@localhost]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 07:54:32PM +0000, maya%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 10:55:44AM -0600, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
> > On Thursday 2020-04-23 03:07, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 09:49:43AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > > > [Recently a patch to libffi to accomodate IRIX has caused a problem on
> > > > another platform.  In discussing what ought to be done, I asked if
> > > > anyone was using pkgsrc on IRIX, but that thread is not likely to be
> > > > seen by most, so I'm asking here.]
> > > 
> > > I would extend the question to other platforms without support in
> > > cwrappers and with questionable support for DESTDIR. For example, I
> > > would explicitly drop any pretense that we support SCO. It doesn't
> > > support proper LD_LIBRARY_PATH behavior and that will incur random
> > > breakage with DESTDIR builds.
> > 
> > I've been looking into pkgsrc for all the SCO Legacy OS's (UnixWare 7,
> > OpenServer 6, and OpenServer 5).  We have a community of about 1,500 Users.
> > With the Definitive Series the include a native development system and
> > gcc-2.95.3.  I've successfully used Ryo ONODERA patches to get a gcc 4.2.4
> > and binutils 2.24 to build a pkgsrc base on OpenServer 5 Definitive 2018 and
> > OpenServer 5.0.7 MP5.
> > 
> > I would prefer the SCO support not be removed so we have more modern Open
> > Soure Projects.
> > 
> 
> >From context I imagine this is the same issue (order of evaluation,
> where RPATH is evaluated before LD_LIBRARY_PATH).
> I wonder if ld supports --enable-new-dtags which is how other OSes with
> this issue have worked around it (call it DT_RUNPATH for the sensible
> behaviour instead of DT_RPATH, to avoid breaking old binaries).

Just as a note, ld(1) and ld.so both need to support it, not just one of
them. But it is easy to make it a default if it works.