perf tools build in recent kernels spews splat when cross compiling with uClibc
| CC util/alias.o
| In file included from tools/perf/util/../ui/../util/cache.h:8:0,
| from tools/perf/util/../ui/helpline.h:7,
| from tools/perf/util/debug.h:8,
| from arch/../util/cpumap.h:9,
| from arch/../util/env.h:5,
| from arch/common.h:4,
| from arch/common.c:3:
| tools/include/linux/string.h:12:15: warning: redundant redeclaration of
‘strlcpy’ [-Wredundant-decls]
| extern size_t strlcpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t size);
^
This is after commit 61a6445e463a31 ("tools lib: Guard the strlcpy() header with
__GLIBC__").
The problem is uClibc also defines __GLIBC__ for exported headers for
applications. So add that specific check to not trip for uClibc.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexey Brodkin <[email protected]>
Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]>
Cc: Petri Gynther <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <[email protected]>
---
tools/include/linux/string.h | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/include/linux/string.h b/tools/include/linux/string.h
index b96879477311..f436d2420a18 100644
--- a/tools/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/tools/include/linux/string.h
@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@ void *memdup(const void *src, size_t len);
int strtobool(const char *s, bool *res);
-#ifdef __GLIBC__
+/*
+ * glibc based builds needs the extern while uClibc doesn't.
+ * However uClibc headers also define __GLIBC__ hence the hack below
+ */
+#if defined(__GLIBC__) && !defined(__UCLIBC__)
extern size_t strlcpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t size);
#endif
--
2.7.4
