Quoting Carlos O'Donell ([email protected]): > On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Serge Hallyn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, would a simple patchl ike this to misc/sys/xattr.h be > > acceptable? This showed up in a failure to build (of at least > > qemu, and aiui lots of other pkgs) after merging a new libcap2 > > where sys/capability.h #included linux/xattr.h. It's being > > worked around by patching libcap2 to #include sys/xattr.h > > first, but presumably this will cause other breakages. > > Please follow the accepted practice for fixing coordination between > userspace and Linux kernel headers. > > Upstream glibc and the Linux kernel have already worked out a > mechanical solution to this problem, and we need people to work out > the patches and post them upstream. > > The solution is to coordinate the conflicting headers following this template: > https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Synchronizing_Headers
Thanks for the information. I tested the two patches at http://people.canonical.com/~serge/xattr-kernel-libc-fix/ and they seem to do the right thing. I'll send them out if they look ok. thanks, -serge -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140306230616.GA31170@ac100
