Notices by Jonathan Perkin (jperkin@federate.me.uk)

@ptribble you don't want to know how many downloads there still are of #SmartOS #pkgsrc releases that are over 10 years old...

@ptribble I'll need to check that one, you may also need https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/commit/10cd0fa6440a21386e5033e43481c23363cfbfe9

@alanc @ptribble unfortunately defining _XOPEN_SOURCE by default breaks a lot of third-party software, or at least did last time I tried it.

I should probably do an updated bulk build to see what the current state is, I imagine it's better since we removed the strict feature_tests.h nonsense.

It was that kind of run today.

5th at #parkrun though! Ok, so there was hardly anyone there because the weather was atrocious, but still, I'll take it 😁

#running #ultrarunning

Joyent's DNS has finally been turned off, so if for some reason you were still using pkgsrc.joyent.com for the past few years, you definitely need to switch over to pkgsrc.smartos.org.

Speaking of GCC, does anyone know of any lawful impediment why I may not drop gccgo from my GCC packages?

Feels like something that hasn't been necessary since 2013.

#illumos #gcc #go

Pondering removing these identifiers from <iso/ctype_iso.h> in my build sandboxes:

#define _U 0x00000001
#define _L 0x00000002
#define _N 0x00000004
#define _S 0x00000008
#define _P 0x00000010
#define _C 0x00000020
#define _B 0x00000040
#define _X 0x00000080

Software authors don't respect namespace rules, and I have to patch around them every so often.

If anyone wants a trivial but tedious #illumos bug to work on, rename them to _CTYPE_* like the BSDs.

Today I learned Speculative Tracing in #DTrace to help narrow down a bug in #Unbound 1.18.0 on #illumos

https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound/issues/945#issuecomment-1744835397

Definitely adding that to my toolkit for next time. Was only after spending a number of hours code reading and writing manual probes to try and figure out where the EINVAL was bubbling up from.

Would be great if we had a repository somewhere of D scripts to cover a huge range of analysis areas, and help folks bootstrap themselves into writing their own.