Hi Alexis & John, At 2026-02-24T14:11:02+1100, John Gardner wrote: > > I don't know if there's any such thing as running an alternative > > libc on a macOS/Darwin system--maybe the system crashes; maybe Apple > > activates a kill switch in your Mac; or maybe things work more or > > less fine. > > It's actually far worse than any of those possibilities, I'm afraid.
[much snippage; imagine Charlie Sheen "winning" meme here] > All of these complexities are why building software on OpenBSD makes > me feel like I'm FLYING. macOS isn't a walled garden, it's a prison > cell lined with garden-wallpaper. Heck, running just about any other OS in the world seems like it would feel like levitating at least a foot off the ground. At 2026-02-24T11:19:26+0100, Alexis wrote: [snip] > Note that $(which printf) will not work reliably as printf can be > a shell built-in as is the case for macOS' default shell, i.e. zsh. Yeah, this seems like a tough nut to crack, so I'm inclined to take a different approach. I was able to get to a Darwin system via the FSF France's compiler farm,[1] but unfortunately uchardet isn't installed by default and the "homebrew environment" that is supposedly available on a temporary basis seems not to work--I can't "brew install" anything due to permissions problems, and attempting to "sudo" that doesn't simply refuse my access (not a surprise), but vomits forth something about a bad gid which looks to me like the value of a 32-bit UINT_MAX. So...no idea. Would you guys try the attached revised "smoke-test.sh" for preconv on your Darwin system(s)? Just take the 1.24.0.rc4 distribution archive, unpack it (if it isn't already), and replace src/preproc/preconv/tests/smoke-test.sh with it. Please let me know the results. Regards, Branden [1] https://portal.cfarm.net/machines/list/
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