On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 5:36 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> I may be able to get some time at my $dayjob to get an autoconf release
> out the door before the glibc release; how much time do I have left, to
> know what priority I need to give this?
Per
On 09/13/2016 05:31 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
[hit send too soon]
> Okay, I have confirmed that this prime-the-cache idea DOES work, using
> libvirt.git commit 419bc8cf (one commit prior to d53fa838 which
> installed a hack into libvirt to force the use of -Werror for the
> duration of
[adding libvirt list, as this is what sparked my investigations so far
today]
On 09/13/2016 04:36 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> One other possibility that distros can do is to prime a config.site
> file, with $ac_cv_header_sys_types_h_makedev=no, to forcefully bypass
> the configure check that is
On 09/01/2016 08:16 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> AC_HEADER_MAJOR is obeying the letter of its documentation but not the
> spirit. People using it reasonably expect that it should handle this
> transition seamlessly for them. They've already gone to the trouble
> of writing
>
> #include
>
On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
>>> It seems that the simplest short term solution is to just not use
>>> -Werror when building packages. Other than the warning, the header
>>> detection worked, and the test is behaving as documented, right?
>>
>>
It seems that the simplest short term solution is to just not use
-Werror when building packages. Other than the warning, the header
detection worked, and the test is behaving as documented, right?
AC_HEADER_MAJOR is obeying the letter of its documentation but not the
spirit. People using it
On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 12:37 AM, Nick Bowler wrote:
> On 8/31/16, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> glibc 2.25 is going to deprecate the definition of 'major', 'minor',
>> and 'makedev' by sys/types.h; see
>> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 11:24 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> Have I missed either a way to carry out the ideal solution, or a third
>> alternative?
>
> How about changing AC_HEADER_MAJOR to detect those warning messages?
That's difficult, but more
On 09/01/2016 04:27 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
glibc 2.25 is going to deprecate the definition of 'major', 'minor',
and 'makedev' by sys/types.h; see
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for rationale.
(It was found to be impractical to remove sys/types.h from stdlib.h.)
On 09/01/2016 06:37 AM, Nick Bowler wrote:
It seems that the simplest short term solution is to just not use
-Werror when building packages. Other than the warning, the header
detection worked, and the test is behaving as documented, right?
-Werror does not work because warnings from
On 8/31/16, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> glibc 2.25 is going to deprecate the definition of 'major', 'minor',
> and 'makedev' by sys/types.h; see
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for rationale.
> (It was found to be impractical to remove sys/types.h from
Zack Weinberg wrote:
Have I missed either a way to carry out the ideal solution, or a third
alternative?
How about changing AC_HEADER_MAJOR to detect those warning messages?
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