From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/1736 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: sys/signal.h, sys/dirent.h + bugzilla. Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:43:35 -0400 Message-ID: <20120824174335.GC27715@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <5037716B.7070605@barfooze.de> <20120824123201.GZ27715@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <25665.132.241.65.118.1345813847.squirrel@lavabit.com> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1345830120 11603 80.91.229.3 (24 Aug 2012 17:42:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:42:00 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-1737-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Fri Aug 24 19:42:01 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T4xtQ-0003SC-9r for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 19:42:00 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 30672 invoked by uid 550); 24 Aug 2012 17:41:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 30658 invoked from network); 24 Aug 2012 17:41:58 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <25665.132.241.65.118.1345813847.squirrel@lavabit.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:1736 Archived-At: On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 09:10:47AM -0400, idunham@lavabit.com wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 02:19:55PM +0200, John Spencer wrote: > >> On 08/24/2012 12:40 PM, Daniel CegieÅ*ka wrote: > >> >Hi, > >> > > >> >e2fsprogs (misc/fsck.c) needs include/sys/signal.h, but musl installs > >> >signal.h only in include/. symlink in Makefile? > >> > > >> >btw. the same situation: sys/dirent.h > >> > > >> those are not posix, the package you're trying to compile is at fault > >> here. > it's util-*linux*, not util-posix - what do you expect? :P > > > > Yes. We've already handled _some_ broken things like this by just > > adding the nonsense alias for the header (as a wrapper rather than a > > symlink, though; using symlinks is a bad idea because installing them > > does not work well) but so far this is the only report I've seen of an > > app needing these two > > I've seen sys/syscall.h previously. Easily fixed. > I have considered doing a glibc-header-compat package, which provides > various nonstandard headers (sys/ aliases, sys/queue.h, etc.) out of tree. > I don't think they belong in tree. I'm not sure how having a separate package for 5-10 one-line .h files is beneficial. Sounds like something the X.org folks would have come up with... especially if you want to package them with a 600k configure script. :-) > BTW, util-linux will probably need to check unistd.h for an adequate > standards-support (_XOPEN_VERSION/_POSIX_VERSION). Allegedly, they > support every libc out there, and a number of older ones don't even have > . is the correct name; is wrong. Neither is standard of course, but the former is the historical location and the latter seems to have been added by glibc at some point for no apparent reason. Rich