Slingshot Linux Distribution | SANS Insitute

[LaloQuera710]

https://www.sans.org/tools/slingshot/

[finagolfin]

Swift 5.8 just made it into the upcoming 25.04 packages, does that work for you? @melizasw is working on getting newer versions in too.

[melizasw]

Yep, 5.9.2 is fighting me a bit in that it is unable to build itself, but once that is figured out it should migrate automatically to Plucky and then on to 5.10.1.

[finagolfin]

OK, glad to hear it. 😃 I took a look at your latest 5.9 commit and noticed you backported a patch of mine. However, that is an older version that has a small bug, please use the final version that made it into trunk instead, b7ec9c8. Also, this swiftrt patch is clearly a hack, let us know what problem it fixed and we should come up with something better.

Other than those two nits, thanks for all your work on this package. I don't use those Debian-based distros, but I'm sure your work will have a great effect on Swift usage in those popular distros.

[melizasw]

I'm not making use of the swiftrt patch. When I run into a build error I tend to throw everything I can find at the problem until it builds then roll back to find the minimal changes needed. That patch was never used in a released package as far as I can recall. I've just deleted it from the 5.9.2 branch that I'm working from. I also updated the other patch, thanks for the alert on that as I know it is needed. Maybe that is what is causing the error with 5.9.2 being unable to build itself? Some nonsense about not being able to find the CxxStdlibShim module.