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From: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Missing defines in utmpx.h
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 19:04:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160128000448.GO238@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56A8857E.1030003@decentral.ch>

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 09:53:18AM +0100, Tim Tassonis wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> 
> I just tried to compile the latest busybox with musl and failed
> because of a change in busybox to include utmpx.h in case of UTMP
> support and header presence.
> 
> The problem seems to be that busybox assumes some defines in utmpx.h
> that are usually in utmp.h and glibc (and possibly other libc's) set
> them in utmpx.h, but musl doesn't.
> 
> I think it were
> 
> _PATH_UTMP and _PATH_WTMP
> 
> 
> I worked around the issue by disabling UTMP support, but maybe this
> could be fixed in musl?

I don't think it would hurt to change this (I'll check later) but
generally you should disable utmp support on musl-based systems
anyway. musl's utmp is intentionally stubbed out to do nothing, and
some programs print spurious runtime warnings/errors too if it's
enabled.

Rich


      reply	other threads:[~2016-01-28  0:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-27  8:53 Tim Tassonis
2016-01-28  0:04 ` Rich Felker [this message]

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