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From: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stable gcc:7.3.0 won't build with stable glibc
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2019 18:23:53
Message-Id: 20190330212338.a29fd3ffe0069c045c864f8f@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Stable gcc:7.3.0 won't build with stable glibc by Grant Edwards
1 On Sat, 30 Mar 2019 17:39:03 -0000 (UTC) Grant Edwards wrote:
2 > On 2019-03-30, Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o> wrote:
3 > > On Sat, 30 Mar 2019 15:09:06 -0000 (UTC) Grant Edwards wrote:
4 > >> On 2019-03-29, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote:
5 > >> > 190329 Grant Edwards wrote:
6 > >> >
7 > >> >> gcc-7.3.9-r3 is marked stable, yet it fails to build if you have the
8 > >> >> current stable version of glibc installed (2.28-r5).
9 > >> >
10 > >> > I've been using Gcc-8.2.0-r6 since 170302 with Glibc-2.27-r6 : no problems.
11 > >>
12 > >> What I'm asking about is that 7.3.0-r3 (which is stable) won't build
13 > >> with glibc-2.28 (which is stable). My question: is that considered a
14 > >> bug or not?
15 > >
16 > > It depends on the details of the problem, but you provided no
17 > > details to make further considerations.
18 >
19 > glibc 2.27 has an include file "ustat.h" which declares a library
20 > function ustat(). glibc 2.28 does not have that include file (nor the
21 > function, AFAICT). Any application that #includes ustat.h or calls
22 > ustat() fails to build with glibc 2.28.
23
24 migrate to statfs() or fstatfs(), that's easy.
25
26 Best regards,
27 Andrew Savchenko

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[gentoo-user] Re: Stable gcc:7.3.0 won't build with stable glibc Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>