Technical Issues Blocking Swift 6.0 Release from Experimental Status
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Summary
The article documents technical issues blocking Swift 6.0 from moving out of experimental status, focusing on CMake integration problems. It lists specific CMake issues including Swift+Ninja not respecting CMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET (causing version mismatch warnings) and swiftc not setting install_name directory to "@rpath" when CMP0157 is enabled. The content appears to be a technical tracking document or issue list for Swift developers.
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Swift + Ninja doesn't respect CMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET. This results in a mismatched LC_BUILD_VERSION on swift and c++ object files, spamming the console with warnings
With CMP0157 enabled, swiftc does not set install_name directory to '@rpath' per CMAKE_INSTALL_NAME_DIR
Swift's version of LLVM is missing the fix for ...
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