I'm trying to track down an autotester failure in a DMD PR, and getting very frustrated that the DMD test suite does not run on Debian/Linux because of the whole PIE-by-default fiasco that necessitates compiling everything with -fPIC.
(1) Currently, there is no way to customize how test/Makefile compiles d_do_tests.d, so there is no way to insert -fPIC into the offending compile line. (2) d_do_tests itself runs compile commands with `-conf=`, so putting -fPIC inside dmd.conf has no effect (where otherwise it does the right thing when dmd is invoked "normally"). There's no obvious way to make customize the compile command used for each test: I tried setting the environment variable ARGS but that just messed up the test runner's expected outputs. Tried to add -fPIC to the DMD environment variable but that blew up in a different way. So basically, I'm stuck up PIE creek without a paddle, and have no way to locally test DMD changes without hogging more load on the autotester. Why is something so simple so hard to do?! T -- Жил-был король когда-то, при нём блоха жила.
