[rb-general] GCC build-path patch getting blocked

[Ximin Luo]

Vagrant Cascadian:
> On 2017-08-16, Ximin Luo wrote:
>> It looks like the GCC reviewer that looked at my patch this time
>> around, really doesn't like environment variables. They seem to be
>> happy to support the variable (including the syntax) as a command-line
>> flag however.
> 
>> The original patch fixed ~1800 packages, which were unreproducible due
>> to a combination of (a) __FILE__, (b) CFLAGS et al being embedded into
>> the output, and (c) packages/upstreams not honoring CFLAGS in the
>> first place, and (d) possibly other reasons.
> ...
>> For these reasons, I have the following proposal, as a work around for the time being:
>>
>> 1. Patch GCC to support BUILD_PATH_PREFIX_MAP as a command-line flag. this will at least fix packages affected by (a).
> 
> What about a compromise, patching GCC to support a commandline flag
> "--respect-build-path-prefix-map-variable" that tells it to respect the
> BUILD_PATH_PREFIX_MAP as an environment variable?
> 
> The commandline flag could essentially be a boolean, and would fix (a)
> as well as (b).
> 
> Or maybe GCC is just fundamentally opposed to environment variables at
> all?
> 
> 
> This is perhaps a correlary to the additional variable added to some of
> the latex toolchain that basically said "really, use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
> for the current time please, please, really"
> 

Thanks for the suggestion. I think it's unlikely but I'll try it and if it doesn't work, do what I said originally.

X

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