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From: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: python-libconfig failing to build with musl
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 16:49:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170228214931.GC1520@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170228221233.30654a92@free-electrons.com>

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:12:33PM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The python-libconfig doesn't build with the musl C library, with some
> very weird error coming all the way from Boost Python:
> 
>   error: invalid use of incomplete type 'struct _IO_FILE'
> 
> See:
> 
>   http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/f0f/f0f6cdc8c38c024772615d5e677b0f4ad63ef7ec/build-end.log
> 
> for the complete build log of python-libconfig.
> 
> If you want a way to easily reproduce, let me know, I can provide the
> 4/5 commands that can allow you to reproduce it with Buildroot.

It's intentional that FILE is an incomplete type. Do you know what
they're trying to do by trying to use it as if it were a complete
type? This is a bug that needs a patch, preferably one suitable for
upstream.

Rich


       reply	other threads:[~2017-02-28 21:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20170228221233.30654a92@free-electrons.com>
2017-02-28 21:49 ` Rich Felker [this message]
2017-03-01  2:25   ` Rich Felker
2017-03-01  8:03     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2017-03-02 14:45       ` Rich Felker

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