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From:
Craig A. Berry
Date:
October 18, 2015 02:24
Subject:
Re: [perl #126360] MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
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On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Ricardo Signes
<perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org> wrote:
> * Jarkko Hietaniemi via RT <perlbug-followup@perl.org> [2015-10-16T16:48:43]
>> I now went ahead and pushed the change as 53d1d41c.
>
> Thanks for forging ahead on this.  I was a bit worried because I didn't see the
> problems in https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=123985#txn-1363511
> discussed, and it seemed like they'd be sure to come up... but building blead
> does not show the changes in behavior warned about from what I could see.

As far as I can tell, the things about POSIX conformance and so on
that David G. mentioned had to do with specifying a target for the
compiler, not the linker.  Until now we've never specified an explicit
target for the compiler, which means it chose its own defaults, which
would typically be whatever version you are running on (or whatever
latest SDK you have installed).

Then we turned around and told the linker to target 10.3 no matter
what.  This was probably the best thing to do for some range of
10.early, but has been somewhere between a little and a lot wrong for
several more recent versions.  Latest greatest (XCode 7.0.1) actually
warns about the discrepancy between compiler target and linker target
and also silently promotes a link target of 10.3 to 10.4 because that
is the minimum even possible for any Intel-only version of OS X.

So the new implementation applies a consistent target version to both
compiler and linker flags.  There should no longer be a discrepancy
between compiler and linker, nor between the perl binary and
extensions built against it when those extensions are built on a later
OS and/or with later build tools than was the perl binary.

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