Re: Can't build libposix

[Bastien ROUCARIES]

i have posted some code for hpux and aix to test

under macosx and bsd programname (3) will do the job

bastien

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Gary V. Vaughan
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Reuben,
>
> On 8 Dec 2010, at 22:32, Reuben Thomas wrote:
>> On 8 December 2010 14:11, Gary V. Vaughan <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> If you are on a glibc system, I think the library provides the necessary
>>> symbol and you should be able to build a working libposix from the topic
>>> branch after a git pull. Otherwise you'll have to link in the progname
>>> module, or similar to resolve it... until we come up with a blessed
>>> method for dealing with it properly.
>>
>> Since I'm using glibc, I don't mind, but why is it a problem for a
>> library? Doesn't it just place a requirement on the program linking
>> against it, in the same way that the C runtime system does on main?
>
> glibc actually doesn't put that requirement on the main program, because
> it automatically provides a suitable symbol to the gnulib error module.
>
> I haven't looked carefully or thought deeply about why my Mac OS X system
> chokes during the link of libposix for the lack of a program_name symbol
> or equivalent... but it's entirely likely that there's a reasonably portable
> ands straight-forward way to clean things up for libposix without shipping
> progname.c.  When I'm not at the tail end of a long day of coding, I'll
> find some time to think it through properly if no one has beaten me to a
> good solution before then :)
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Gary V. Vaughan (address@hidden)
>
>