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Date: Thu, 01 May 2014 09:07:08 -0400
From: "writeonce@...ipix.org" <writeonce@...ipix.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: for the wiki: a __MUSL__ alternative
On 05/01/2014 08:51 AM, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 03:41:19AM -0400, writeonce@...ipix.org wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Since requests for a __MUSL__ macro still come in every now and
>> then, I thought it might be useful to add to the wiki the following
>> text at the end of the section "why is there no __MUSL__ macro?"
>>
>> If you have a situation that (temporarily) requires that you can
>> identify the libc being used, consider the following trick: as part
>> of your configuration script, locate libc.so, then create a symlink
>> from libc.so to /some/temporary/folder/ldd, and finally execute
>> /some/temporary/folder/ldd 2>&1 | grep 'musl libc'; Based on the
>> outcome, you could then add -D__MUSL__ to the relevant environment
>> variable.
> The whole point of the wiki answer is that doing this is wrong. Adding
> a "here's a way to do it anyway" rather defeats the purpose and is
> just going to get us more trouble in the long term. In any case, this
> only works when dynamic linking is available, and it requires the
> ability to run programs for the target which breaks cross compiling
> and therefore violates one of the biggest rules for built scripts.
>
> Rich
>
>
You are absolutely right, and my thought was to provide a _temporary_
solution until everyone get convinced... but I certainly see your
point. It later occurred to me that this won't work with
cross-compilation, and while there is an even more deviant trick for
that scenario as well, this time I'm keeping it to myself;-)
zg
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