Re: Building netbsd-8 and netbsd-9 with modern gcc

David Brownlee <[email protected]> Tue, 30 May 2023 15:13:53 +0100

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On Tue, 30 May 2023 at 14:44, Martin Husemann <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 01:04:48PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> > OK, I must be going crazy. I can now no-longer reproduce the issue, so
> > this could just have been wasting everyone's time.
> >
> > Damn. Apologies for that...
>
> Not sure wich sources you tests last, but I think the main fixes were:
>
> from CHANGES-8.3:
>
>         Avoid depending on common symbols.
>         [mrg, ticket #1678]
>
> and the same in CHANGES-9.2:
>
>         [mrg, ticket #1263]

Aha, thanks!

It may still be worth adding a note in online docs about passing -V
HOST_CFLAGS=-fcommon to build.sh for older releases, as a secondary
order fix

David