Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> writes:

> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 10:09 AM Niels Möller <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> As far as I'm aware, that should fix BSDs and other systems disliking
>> relative names in LD_LIRBARY_PATH. If you can verify the rc1 tarball on
>> NetBSD (I only have FreeBSD nearby), that would be nice.
>
> I'll have to take your word for it. I upgraded to NetBSD 9, and now
> iConv is broken. I can't get beyond its install recipe. A broken iConv
> or Gettext means I can't build the necessary dependencies to test
> Nettle.

Sounds a bit frustrating... Building the tarball shouldn't need more
than a C compiler, GNU make and m4 (if you configure with
--enable-mini-gmp, you can get reasonable test coverage without
installing the GMP library).

> Actually a lot of software works with SIP on OS X. Nearly all software
> I use and test works as expected, which is about 120 packages. The
> problem seems to be limited to Git, GMP and Nettle. I think you want
> to get on the other side of the fence with all the software that works
> as expected.

As I see it, it's a problem affecting a few of Nettle's test. Once
installed, it should work fine. It might be a valid fix to just disable
those tests. 

I mean, DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH is useful mainly for developers, and it's not
unreasonable to configure the system differently on a developer machine
than on a vanilla server or desktop. On GNU/Linux, e.g, I'd recommend
developers to enable traditional core dumps and use a liberal setting
for sysctl kernel.yama.ptrace_scope.

> Is there any reason you refuse to fix things?

Just that (i) it's going to take me a few hours to test and fix this
properly, and I don't want to allocate those hours before the release,
and (ii) I generally give lower priority to supporting proprietary
systems.

> You are also welcomed to an account on my Mac Mini. Send over your
> authorized_keys file.

Thanks for the offer, but by (ii), I don't want to spend my time working
on mac os.

Regards,
/Niels

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