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Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 03:21:05 +0200
From: John Spencer <maillist-musl@...fooze.de>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] Add basic sys/cdefs.h found on most unix
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@...EGIN_DECLS@@g' include/xattr.h
pkg/elfutils: "s@...EGIN_DECLS@...def __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)
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