Re: pkg/50589 (libarchive build fails during bootstrap on OSF/1)

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 04:40:00PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR pkg/50589; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
> To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: pkg/50589 (libarchive build fails during bootstrap on OSF/1)
> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 16:36:58 +0000
> 
>  On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 09:35:01PM +0000, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>   >  As I wrote in the upstream bug report, this looks like a insanely broken
>   >  compiler. The test for wchar_t existance passes, but it doesn't have a
>   >  size. Sounds like a good case of "don't use this".
>  
>  Given the UB in the failing test program, I'm not sure it has a leg to
>  stand on.

The real problem is that the compiler accepts -Wall...
...by passing it down to the linker.

Joerg