[PATCH] Fix getting environment variables for sanitizers needs on FreeBSD

[Dmitry Vyukov]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger
<joerg at britannica.bec.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 04:23:28PM +0400, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger
>> <joerg at britannica.bec.de> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 01:34:11PM +0400, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>> >> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Viktor Kutuzov
>> >> <vkutuzov at accesssoftek.com> wrote:
>> >> >> crt1 is a part of C runtime. I am interested in complete independence of C world for Go runtime.
>> >> >
>> >> > We would need a special implementation for Go then, I believe.
>> >>
>> >> Not necessary. If we have C crt-independent version for Go, then we
>> >> don't need a separate C crt-dependent version for C++. Just as on
>> >> linux we have GetEnv that reads a file from /proc.
>> >
>> > Trading a (cheap) dependency on the process init code for a dependency
>> > on /proc is something most people outside Linux will not consider an
>> > improvement.
>>
>>
>> It's not a cheap dependency in my context. It forces one to install C
>> toolchain for starters (which is not trivial on e.g. windows), then
>> imposes to use particular driver to call particular linker, etc.
>
> Given that the context here was about FreeBSD, much of that is
> completely irrelevant.


There is still the dependence of the huge C world with zillions of
possible versions. I would like to get rid of that entirely.