gcc-4_2-branch: tiny issue with libiberty
Thomas Schwinge
tschwinge@gnu.org
Sat Nov 17 17:35:00 GMT 2007
[Roland: for your information.]
Hello!
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 10:58:30AM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > Nevertheless, I don't understand why you don't want to adapt the
> > parameters to what other systems (glibc, BSD) are using? Why should
> > libiberty provide a (marginally) different version of `psignal'?
>
> Well, for starters, it helps us find build problems like yours :-)
>
> (I'm a big fan of choosing "fail loudly" over "fail quietly")
I absolutely agree to ``failing loudly'' instead of ``failing quietly'',
however I think that this is a non-argument for the issue at hand here,
as it only triggered, because that one prototype (of GNU libc's and BSD
libc's `psignal') happened to be different from the libiberty
implementation. Or do you want to suggest that you're going to introduce
such function signature changes for every libiberty-provided symbol? I
hope you don't. :-)
> Since our psignal should only get used on platforms without their own
> psignal, why does it matter?
So that the next person to see through this part of the libiberty sources
doesn't wonder why the libiberty `psignal' is (marginally) different from
the GNU libc or BSD libc one. I still uphold that my patch should be
installed, but that's not for me to decide, obviously.
As for the original report: this was while building a i586-pc-gnu cross
compiler from the gcc-4_2-branch sources. I can't reproduce the original
problem anymore and already lost the previous `config.log' file. I
suspect it was a bogon resulting from a stale `config.cache' file and
change in the target's libc.
Regards,
Thomas
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