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Yes that is possible; the configure script is for the most part autogenerated. But the maintainers of said programs have to actually do so, and users have to ac
by FooBarWidget 9y ago
Yes that is possible; the configure script is for the most part autogenerated. But the maintainers of said programs have to actually do so, and users have to actually download the latest version. It would still take many years for fixes to propagate throughout the entire ecosystem.
- amgaera 9y agoThe article talks about the broken linker check being an issue mostly when adopting lld as part of the standard build system of an operating system, such as FreeBSD. For FreeBSD to switch to lld, wouldn't it be enough to fix the version of autoconf available in FreeBSD and use it to regenerate configure scripts in FreeBSD's build system (when building and packaging programs for inclusion in its repositories)?