Re: More information about #error "Please port gnulib..."

[Bruno Haible]

Hello,

Daniel G. wrote:
> I'm trying to recompile many gnu applications in my own customized operating
> system. I'm using glibc-2.28 with gcc-8.2.0 and linux kernel 4.18.16.
> 
> As I was told in this same list, I'm using the git repositories to recreate
> the source packages. It is quite a big job, I've already prepared
> findutils, m4, bison... and sometimes it requires additional work to modify 
> configure.ac
> files etc.
> 
> I would like to have more information about this gnulib issue (or some 
> references to
> read) to decide whether investing more time moving to git sources or return to
> glibc-2.17 and wait for a general fix.

You could maybe reuse the work other people have done? I mean, other distros
have the same problem. Pick a distro with glibc-2.28 [1] and look at the
patches they have prepared. For example, Fedora 29 has a fix for findutils [2].

Bruno

[1] https://repology.org/metapackage/glibc/versions
[2] 
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/findutils/c/048e4fadab5dcf0d2b709f27563f2b6179c22ea7?branch=master