On 28.11.2014, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> On 21.11.2014 22:00, Felix Janda wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > the file grub-core/osdep/unix/hostdisk.c has special code for glibc<2.1,
> > which gets also pulled in for other libcs (such as musl libc) and makes
> > compilation fail for them because the code uses glibc internals. The
> > easiest way to fix is just to remove the code as the below patch does.
> >
> Don't assume that nobody will try to compile with ancient glibc. If you
> want to raise the supported version for glibc you need to add a
> configure check for presence of long offsets to configure and fail it if
> it's not available. It should also be documented in INSTALL.
Before messing around with configure.ac, I'd like know whether a patch
(correctly) implementing what you suggest would be accepted.
Another solution I would be happy with, is to change the conditions
# if !defined(__GLIBC__) || \
((__GLIBC__ < 2) || ((__GLIBC__ == 2) && (__GLIBC_MINOR__ < 1)))
to
# ((__GLIBC__ < 2) || ((__GLIBC__ == 2) && (__GLIBC_MINOR__ < 1)))
Felix
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