[musl] Announcing an argp-standalone fork

[musl] Announcing an argp-standalone fork

[Érico Nogueira]

Hi!

So, the current argp-standalone version used by at least Void, Alpine 
and possibly FreeBSD (though I don't know the best way to contact them) 
has a few tiny issues here and there. The one I experienced was that 
unning elfutils' `eu-elfclassify --help` resulted in a segfault.

Since argp-standalone upstream has been inactive for a long time, and I 
couldn't find any other forks, I decided to do it myself, and try to 
bring it in line with what glibc currently has.



The results are in https://github.com/ericonr/argp-standalone

if anyone else wants to try it / verify my work. I also imported quite a 
few trivial and stylistic glibc changes in order to keep the diff with 
future glibc as small as possible, which should make updating the 
library reasonably simple.

There is still this FreeBSD patch that I haven't imported:
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/devel/argp-standalone/files/patch-argp-help.c?view=log

I should be switching Void to this fork in the short term, as well.

Cheers, and hope this can be useful for someone,
Érico

Re: [musl] Announcing an argp-standalone fork

[Ismael Luceno]

On 10/Feb/2021 20:36, Érico Nogueira wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> So, the current argp-standalone version used by at least Void, Alpine
> and possibly FreeBSD (though I don't know the best way to contact
> them) has a few tiny issues here and there. The one I experienced was
> that unning elfutils' `eu-elfclassify --help` resulted in a segfault.
> 
> Since argp-standalone upstream has been inactive for a long time, and
> I couldn't find any other forks, I decided to do it myself, and try to
> bring it in line with what glibc currently has.
> 
> 
> 
> The results are in https://github.com/ericonr/argp-standalone
> 
> if anyone else wants to try it / verify my work. I also imported quite
> a few trivial and stylistic glibc changes in order to keep the diff
> with future glibc as small as possible, which should make updating the
> library reasonably simple.
> 
> There is still this FreeBSD patch that I haven't imported:
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/devel/argp-standalone/files/patch-argp-help.c?view=log
> 
> I should be switching Void to this fork in the short term, as well.
> 
> Cheers, and hope this can be useful for someone,
> Érico

Have you seen <https://github.com/xhebox/libuargp>?

Re: [musl] Announcing an argp-standalone fork

[Érico Nogueira]

I accidentally didn't reply to the list.

Em 10/02/2021 22:01, Ismael Luceno escreveu:
> On 10/Feb/2021 20:36, Érico Nogueira wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> So, the current argp-standalone version used by at least Void, Alpine
>> and possibly FreeBSD (though I don't know the best way to contact
>> them) has a few tiny issues here and there. The one I experienced was
>> that unning elfutils' `eu-elfclassify --help` resulted in a segfault.
>>
>> Since argp-standalone upstream has been inactive for a long time, and
>> I couldn't find any other forks, I decided to do it myself, and try to
>> bring it in line with what glibc currently has.
>>
>>
>>
>> The results are in https://github.com/ericonr/argp-standalone
>>
>> if anyone else wants to try it / verify my work. I also imported quite
>> a few trivial and stylistic glibc changes in order to keep the diff
>> with future glibc as small as possible, which should make updating the
>> library reasonably simple.
>>
>> There is still this FreeBSD patch that I haven't imported:
>> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/devel/argp-standalone/files/patch-argp-help.c?view=log
>>
>> I should be switching Void to this fork in the short term, as well.
>>
>> Cheers, and hope this can be useful for someone,
>> Érico
> 
> Have you seen <https://github.com/xhebox/libuargp>?
> 


No, I wasn't aware of it. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Before 
commiting to my version, I will try and compare them.



Since most distros are still using the old argp-standalone, from what I 
can see in repology.org, I hope we can try and improve the situation some...



Cheers,

Érico