Monday, February 28, 2022

Re: [UPDATE] lang/nim to 1.6.4

On 2022/02/28 10:06, Omar Polo wrote:
> I wasn't trying to say that we should patch the nim compiler to always
> respect $CFLAGS, but rather that it should respect $CFLAGS *during the
> build*. My patch had the side-effect of persisting the build-time
> $CFLAGS as default compiler flags for the generated package too (they
> end up in /etc/nim/nim.cfg), which now I think it's probably a good
> idea.
>
> (the rationale is that the port infrastructure should be always able to
> decide which CFLAGS to use and the port should respect that.)

agreed

> Volker Schlecht <openbsd-ports@schlecht.dev> wrote:
> > It uses fork instead of posix_spawn ... both OpenBSD and FreeBSD remove
> > that line in their ports, though. NetBSD keeps it as it is.
> >
> > It was added by upstream 8 years ago, and the comment refers to
> > posix_spawn being new to BSDs at the time.

so that part of the patch can probably be garbage-collected now?

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