From: John Spencer <maillist-musl@barfooze.de>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] Add basic sys/cdefs.h found on most unix
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 03:21:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50834E01.2070101@barfooze.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50834455.3070407@barfooze.de>
On 10/21/2012 02:39 AM, John Spencer wrote:
> On 10/21/2012 02:38 AM, Abdoulaye Walsimou GAYE wrote:
>> On 10/21/2012 02:11 AM, Rich Felker wrote:
>>> As it stands, these libraries/apps won't work anywhere but GNU/Linux
>>> (by "GNU/" I mean glibc-based) or BSD. If the offending code is
>>> removed and replaced with what should be there, they'd be a lot more
>>> portable. So I would not say sys/cdefs.h aids in porting them; I'd say
>>> its presence gives these libs/apps a way to be lazy and
>>> non-portable...
>>
>> I am not the writer of these applications and going to patch old
>> applications
>> that are there for a while is just not an option.
>
> why not ?
>>
>>
>> May be it is incorrect, unfortunately it there for a while and some
>> applications
>> rely on it.
>>
> and can be patched easily, as sabotage does for example.
>
>
from sabotage's 250 pkgs, only 2 needed patching:
pkg/attr:sed -i 's@__BEGIN_DECLS@@g' include/xattr.h
pkg/elfutils: "s@__BEGIN_DECLS@#ifdef __cplusplus\nextern \"C\"
{\n#endif@" \
(and the latter is not even in use anymore, since it is full of ugly
glibc-specific code, i replaced it with libelf-compat, a cleaned up version)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-21 1:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-20 20:15 [PATCH 0/4] Import <netinet/ether.h> features from NetBSD Abdoulaye Walsimou Gaye
2012-10-20 20:15 ` [PATCH 1/4] Build system: give ability to install lib/crt*.o files separately Abdoulaye Walsimou Gaye
2012-10-20 23:49 ` Rich Felker
2012-10-20 20:15 ` [PATCH 2/4] Add basic sys/cdefs.h found on most unix Abdoulaye Walsimou Gaye
2012-10-20 23:18 ` Isaac Dunham
2012-10-20 23:38 ` Abdoulaye Walsimou GAYE
2012-10-20 23:38 ` Rich Felker
2012-10-21 0:13 ` Abdoulaye Walsimou GAYE
2012-10-21 0:11 ` Rich Felker
2012-10-21 0:38 ` Abdoulaye Walsimou GAYE
2012-10-21 0:39 ` John Spencer
2012-10-21 1:21 ` John Spencer [this message]
2012-10-20 23:50 ` Isaac Dunham
2012-10-20 23:44 ` Rich Felker
2012-10-20 20:15 ` [PATCH 3/4] Import BSD functions defined in <netinet/ether.h> from NetBSD Abdoulaye Walsimou Gaye
2012-10-20 23:37 ` idunham
2012-10-21 0:40 ` Abdoulaye Walsimou GAYE
2012-10-21 0:42 ` John Spencer
2012-10-21 0:41 ` Rich Felker
2012-10-21 0:52 ` Abdoulaye Walsimou GAYE
2012-10-21 0:48 ` Rich Felker
2012-10-21 0:57 ` John Spencer
2012-10-21 0:53 ` Rich Felker
2012-10-20 20:15 ` [PATCH 4/4] <netinet/ether.h>: Add GNU extensions ether_ntoa_r() and ether_aton_r() Abdoulaye Walsimou Gaye
2012-10-20 23:53 ` Rich Felker
2012-10-21 0:43 ` Abdoulaye Walsimou GAYE
2012-10-21 0:46 ` John Spencer
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