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		1vuio0pswjnm7 on July 13, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Patching GCC to build Actually Portable Executable... "But I've spent a good chunk of time removing obvious counterexamples, and a lot of popular software builds seamlessly." Publishing a list of software that will successfully compile might be helpful. Perhaps this already exists.

ahgamut on July 13, 2023 [–]

You can build software like vim, emacs, ninja, bash, git, gcc etc -- here's a list of software I got to build with this technique: https://github.com/ahgamut/superconfigure

The superconfigure script is just a wrapper around the usual configure script used to build your software, supplying flags like --enable-static.

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