[Vm-dev] [squeak-dev] Building with a strict(er) C99 compiler

[David T. Lewis]

Hi Florian,

On Fri, Dec 02, 2022 at 09:36:37AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * David T. Lewis:
> 
> > Hi Florian,
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 01:10:45PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> >> I'm trying to build the VM with a C compiler which does not accept
> >> implicit function declarations or implici int.
> >> 
> >> This is in preparation for a future change in GCC and Clang defaults.
> >> More information is here:
> >> 
> >>   <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/PortingToModernC>
> >>   <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Toolchain/PortingToModernC>
> >> 
> >> (The second link points to a container image with an instrumented GCC
> >> that can be used for experiments, or you can just inject
> >> -Werror=implicit-function-declaration -Werror=implicit-int into the
> >> build, which has the same results if compiler flags injection works
> >> reliably throughout the build environment.)
> >> 
> >> According to Fedora's records Squeak-4.10.2.2614-src-no-mp3 was
> >> downloaded from <http://squeakvm.org/unix/release/>.
> >> 
> >
> > This is the traditional Squeak VM, which is useful for Squeak images
> > up through Squeak 4.6. This VM is hosted at http://squeakvm.org.
> > Newer and current Squeak images use the opensmalltalk-vm VM, which
> > is hosted at https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm.
> 
> So is it useful for Fedora to keep shipping this, or should we drop the
> package because it gives a false impression this is the most recent
> available version if it's in Fedora?  Eliot set in the parallel
> subthread we should remove it.
> 
> Sorry, I'm just trying to port Fedora to newer C compilers, and this
> package popped up.  I'm not really interested in Squeak as such.
> 

If you can identify the people who were maintaining this package
for Fedora, then I would suggest that you contact them for guidance.
Otherwise you can safely assume that no one is working on it, and
in that case you should follow Eliot's advice.

Dave