lld 17.0.1 searches for libraries to link first in the toolchain
directories before the local directory when building. The is a problem
for us because liblzma.a is installed in MSYS2 CLANG64 by default and
xz.exe will thus use the installed library instead of the one being
built.
This causes tests to fail when they are expecting features to be
disabled. More importantly, it will compile xz.exe with an incorrect
liblzma and could cause unexpected behavior by being unable to update
liblzma code in static builds. The CLANG64 environment can be tested
again once this is fixed.
Link to bug: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/67779.
All of the MSYS2 environments need make, and it does not come with the
toolchain package. The toolchain package will install the needed
compiler toolchains since without this package CMake cannot properly
generate the Makefiles.
Only a subset of the tests run by the Linux and MacOS Autotools builds
are run. The most interesting tests are the ones that disable threads,
encoders, and decoders.
The Windows runner will only be run manually since these tests will
likely take much longer than the Linux and MacOS runners. This runner
should be used before merging any large features and before releases.
Currently the clang64 environment fails to due to a warning and
-Werror is enabled for the CI tests. This is still an early version
since the CMake build can be done for MSVC and optionally each of the
MSYS2 environments. GitHub does not allow manually running the CI tests
unless the workflow is checked on the default branch so checking in a
minimum version is a good idea.
Thanks to Arthur S for the original proposing the original patch.
Closes: https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/pull/34
Gabriela Gutierrez
Jia Tan