perhaps weird question, is there a way to build just the linker from illumos-gate and nothing else?

violet yes, but you still need to checkout whole repo

rmustacc: there is a typo in testing notes for #15380, "suspsended" (just to make sure old page is really not there)

yuripv: Yes, it's also gone when I type the right thing. Thanks.

violet: what do you need it for? We build a version as part of usr/src/tools/sgs and the version we deliver in usr/src/cmd/sgs.

you need libconv, libelf, libld, and ld. Just building ld doesn't do much.

richlowe: im trying to get nix working on illumos and it'd be cool if i could build the linker in nix for completeness sake

(also would be cool if i could build the linker on linux and run it there for cross compilation purposes but maybe that's a pipedream)

i was naiively just trying to run `gmake` the usr/src/<whatever>/sgs but it was missing various variable definitions so i figure that is not the way

violet: We do not use the same make and wont use gmake

oh ok

which make should i use

we had a port that was using linux but that got modified back to illumos and our make

dmake by joerg schilling or the one in gate

violet: if you have anything interesting to share on the nix side please talk to us in #exotic:nixos.org on Matrix! I've wanted to have Nix on illumos for ages, and have done some initial explorations but never had the time to get very far.

but I definitely have some (Nix-specific, so probably not interesting to most people in this channel) pointers I could share

will do, i have had to do a couple questionable things (that could be replaced with better, less questionable things) to the nix source code so far

don't use joerg's make, use the one in the gate.

why?

because that's literally what it's for, and the only one supported.

Isn't it the same?

no

huh, we synced them. Ah well ok. Use the one in gate :) got it.

*thought we synced them

[illumos-gate] 15380 taskq_suspended(9F) should be ddi_taskq_suspended(9F) -- Robert Mustacchi <rm⊙fo>

[illumos-gate] 15381 fix inw(9F) synopsis -- Robert Mustacchi <rm⊙fo>

[illumos-gate] 15383 firmware_malloc(9F) doesn't exist -- Robert Mustacchi <rm⊙fo>