Ronald Wampler [off-list ref] writes:
I am not sure if this the correction solution. Another option I
considered was to wrap the EXTLIBS += -lrt is an ifndef NO_RT and only
defining NO_RT for Mac OS X in config.mak.uname.
That alternative would make the resulting code noisier/uglier with
nested ifdef, I would imagine, but it would be of less impact to the
existing users. But my gut feeling is that the patch you sent is
probably a better solution for the longer term.
Thanks.
Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:
Ronald Wampler [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
I am not sure if this the correction solution. Another option I
considered was to wrap the EXTLIBS += -lrt is an ifndef NO_RT and only
defining NO_RT for Mac OS X in config.mak.uname.
That alternative would make the resulting code noisier/uglier with
nested ifdef, I would imagine, but it would be of less impact to the
existing users. But my gut feeling is that the patch you sent is
probably a better solution for the longer term.
That change broke my Debian wheezy LTS system, which isn't too
out-of-date. I think having excessive linkage on newer systems
is preferable to breaking the out-of-the-box experience.
I don't know about other platforms, but I think the following
will help users on older GNU/Linux systems for the next few
years:
-------8<------
Subject: [PATCH] config.mak.uname: define NEEDS_LIBRT under Linux, for now
My Debian wheezy LTS system is still on glibc 2.13; and LTS
distros may use older glibc, still, so lets not unnecessarily
break things out-of-the-box.
We seem to assume Linux is using glibc in our Makefiles anyways,
so I don't think this will introduce new breakage for users of
alternative libc implementations.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <redacted>
---
config.mak.uname | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/config.mak.uname b/config.mak.uname
index a88f139..22958a8 100644
--- a/config.mak.uname
+++ b/config.mak.uname
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),Linux)
HAVE_DEV_TTY = YesPlease
HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME = YesPlease
HAVE_CLOCK_MONOTONIC = YesPlease
+ # -lrt is needed for clock_gettime on glibc <= 2.16
+ NEEDS_LIBRT = YesPlease
HAVE_GETDELIM = YesPlease
SANE_TEXT_GREP=-a
endif
--
EW
On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 10:16:44PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
My Debian wheezy LTS system is still on glibc 2.13; and LTS
distros may use older glibc, still, so lets not unnecessarily
break things out-of-the-box.
We seem to assume Linux is using glibc in our Makefiles anyways,
so I don't think this will introduce new breakage for users of
alternative libc implementations.
This is a good idea. If it's broken with Debian wheezy, it will also be
broken for RHEL/CentOS 6. People who really want the slimmest linkage
can use the -Wl,--as-needed flag.
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