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Re: Can't build libposix


From: Gary V. Vaughan
Subject: Re: Can't build libposix
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 22:42:14 +0700

Hi Reuben,

On 8 Dec 2010, at 22:32, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> On 8 December 2010 14:11, Gary V. Vaughan <address@hidden> wrote:
>> If you are on a glibc system, I think the library provides the necessary
>> symbol and you should be able to build a working libposix from the topic
>> branch after a git pull. Otherwise you'll have to link in the progname
>> module, or similar to resolve it... until we come up with a blessed
>> method for dealing with it properly.
> 
> Since I'm using glibc, I don't mind, but why is it a problem for a
> library? Doesn't it just place a requirement on the program linking
> against it, in the same way that the C runtime system does on main?

glibc actually doesn't put that requirement on the main program, because
it automatically provides a suitable symbol to the gnulib error module.

I haven't looked carefully or thought deeply about why my Mac OS X system
chokes during the link of libposix for the lack of a program_name symbol
or equivalent... but it's entirely likely that there's a reasonably portable
ands straight-forward way to clean things up for libposix without shipping
progname.c.  When I'm not at the tail end of a long day of coding, I'll
find some time to think it through properly if no one has beaten me to a
good solution before then :)

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (address@hidden)



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