> On 25 Jun 2026, at 20:35, Iain Sandoe <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Rainer,
>
>> On 25 Jun 2026, at 20:30, Rainer Orth <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>> Current Darwin no longer supports non-pie executables, leading to spurious
>>> fails because of linker warnings; skip these cases.
>>
>> I see that quite a number of tests are already skipped on Darwin because
>> of this issue. ISTM that it would be better to introduce a no_pie
>> effective target rather than using such ad-hoc skips...
>
> seems fair, however, I’m not a big fan of double-negatives - and we’d end up
> with lots of { target { ! no_pie } }
>
> maybe “pie_exe_OK”?
> (open to better spellings)
hmm .. I blame the heat - non_pie is perhaps the right thing in this case ..
because
it’s gating the no-pie option; I suppose we should do a survey of which
permutations
are most often used.
Iain
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> Iain
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