Add --ldflags configure option (#3545)

* updated README.md

* Create close-inactive-issues.yml

* Add --ldflags configure option

Add --ldflags configure option to allow the user to provide additional
flags to the linker such as -latomic. This will avoid the following
build failure with ActiveRecord on sparc v8:

/home/peko/autobuild/instance-1/output-1/host/opt/ext-toolchain/bin/../lib/gcc/sparc-buildroot-linux-uclibc/10.3.0/../../../../sparc-buildroot-linux-uclibc/bin/ld: /home/peko/autobuild/instance-1/output-1/build/poco-1.11.1/ActiveRecord/Compiler/obj/Linux/sparc/release_shared/Compiler.o: in function `Poco::RefCountedObject::release() const':
Compiler.cpp:(.text._ZNK4Poco16RefCountedObject7releaseEv[_ZNK4Poco16RefCountedObject7releaseEv]+0xc): undefined reference to `__atomic_fetch_sub_4'

Fixes:
 - http://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/b01/b014d6fcb8fdf28984d7ce606db2347b0265bc6a/build-end.log

Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>

Co-authored-by: Günter Obiltschnig <guenter.obiltschnig@appinf.com>
Co-authored-by: Aleksandar Fabijanic <aleks-f@users.noreply.github.com>

.github/workflows/close-inactive-issues.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+name: Close inactive issues
+on:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: "30 2 * * *"
+
+jobs:
+  close-issues:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/stale@v3
+        with:
+          days-before-issue-stale: 365
+          days-before-issue-close: 60
+          stale-issue-label: "stale"
+          stale-issue-message: "This issue is stale because it has been open for 365 days with no activity."
+          close-issue-message: "This issue was closed because it has been inactive for 60 days since being marked as stale."
+          days-before-pr-stale: -1
+          days-before-pr-close: -1
+          repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

README.md

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 ![alt text][logo]
 
 [![poco-ci](https://github.com/pocoproject/poco/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg?branch=poco-1.11.2)](https://github.com/pocoproject/poco/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
+
 [![CII Best Practices](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/370/badge)](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/370)
 
 

build/rules/global

@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ endif
 COMMONFLAGS = -DPOCO_BUILD_HOST='"'$(HOSTNAME)'"' -DPOCO_TARGET_OSNAME='"'$(OSNAME)'"' -DPOCO_TARGET_OSARCH='"'$(OSARCH)'"' $(POCO_FLAGS)
 CFLAGS     += $(COMMONFLAGS) $(SYSFLAGS)
 CXXFLAGS   += $(COMMONFLAGS) $(SYSFLAGS)
-LINKFLAGS  += $(COMMONFLAGS) $(SYSFLAGS)
+LINKFLAGS  += $(COMMONFLAGS) $(SYSFLAGS) $(POCO_LDFLAGS)
 
 ifeq ($(OSARCH_64BITS),1)
 CFLAGS     += $(CFLAGS64)

configure

@@ -122,6 +122,10 @@ Options:
     Pass additional flags to compiler.
     Example: --cflags=-wall
 
+  --ldflags=<flags>
+    Pass additional flags to linker.
+    Example: --ldflags=-latomic
+
   --poquito
     Omit a few features for smaller codesize when linking
     statically for embedded targets.
@@ -154,6 +158,7 @@ tests=1
 samples=1
 noprefix=0
 flags=""
+ldflags=""
 includepath=""
 librarypath=""
 odbclib=""
@@ -209,6 +214,9 @@ while [ $# -ge 1 ]; do
 	--cflags=*)
 		flags="$flags `echo ${1} | awk '{print substr($0,10)}'`" ;;
 
+	--ldflags=*)
+		ldflags="$ldflags `echo ${1} | awk '{print substr($0,11)}'`" ;;
+
 	--no-samples)
 		samples="" ;;
 
@@ -327,6 +335,7 @@ echo "POCO_CONFIG = $config" >>$build/config.make
 echo "POCO_BASE = $base" >>$build/config.make
 echo "POCO_BUILD = $build" >>$build/config.make
 echo "POCO_FLAGS = $flags" >>$build/config.make
+echo "POCO_LDFLAGS = $ldflags" >>$build/config.make
 if [ -n "$prefix" ] ; then
 	echo "POCO_PREFIX = $prefix" >>$build/config.make
 fi
@@ -370,6 +379,7 @@ export POCO_CONFIG
 export POCO_BASE
 export POCO_BUILD
 export POCO_FLAGS
+export POCO_LDFLAGS
 __EOF__
 
 if [ -n "$prefix" ] ; then