On Feb 6, 2021, at 02:14, Ken Cunningham wrote:
> On Feb 5, 2021, at 10:04 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> That sounds like what Craig is saying: that meson is now adding a compiler
>> flag that old compilers don't understand. Meson should check whether a
>> compiler supports a flag before it adds it. We should not be responsible for
>> fixing this; the developers of meson should.
>
> I haven’t tested it all to see for myself, but if someone knows for sure it
> so, then yeah.
>
> Personally I would be happy to hotpatch it rather than have Every Single
> Meson Build on 10.7 through 10.9 fail until the patch makes it out the door
> to us in a released version.
Absolutely, if we can figure out a patch, we patch it. Just saying this is a
bug in meson. It's not our responsibility or desire to forever maintain a local
patch to fix it.
