Re: [PATCH] Simplify strchrnul() compat code

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:

> René Scharfe wrote:
>>  -#ifdef NO_STRCHRNUL
>> +#if !defined(__GLIBC__) && !__GLIBC_PREREQ(2, 1)
>
> This will break things for users of glibc-2.1.1 (the first release still
> available from ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/glibc/old-releases that
> includes the strchrnul() function), since __GLIBC_PREREQ() was invented
> after strchrnul() was introduced.
>
> Replacing __GLIBC__ with __GLIBC_PREREQ (as in the original patch) will
> solve it nicely. Users of glibc-2.1.1 will be the odd minority where
> strchrnul() is available in their libc but not used.

Do you mean this on top of René's patch?  Although I do not
think I saw "the original patch" that did it this way, I think
it makes sense.

diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index 11e6df6..dd96f7a 100644
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ void *gitmemmem(const void *haystack, size_t haystacklen,
                 const void *needle, size_t needlelen);
 #endif
 
-#if !defined(__GLIBC__) && !__GLIBC_PREREQ(2, 1)
+#if !defined(__GLIBC_PREREQ) && !__GLIBC_PREREQ(2, 1)
 #define strchrnul gitstrchrnul
 static inline char *gitstrchrnul(const char *s, int c)
 {