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From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: Waldemar Brodkorb <wbx@openadk.org>
Cc: buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/perl: threads support needs locales
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2023 20:07:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230809200742.5968181b@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZNOMtm7TTVd12BQ3@waldemar-brodkorb.de>

On Wed, 9 Aug 2023 14:55:18 +0200
Waldemar Brodkorb <wbx@openadk.org> wrote:

> The thread support in perl needs locales enabled in the C library.
> Otherwise it fails with:
> POSIX.xs:3386:13: error: 'MBLEN_LOCK' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'MUTEX_LOCK'?

Doesn't that seem really really weird, that thread support would depend
on locale support?

If we look at perl.h, which defines MBLEN_LOCK, we see something like
this:

/* Locale/thread synchronization macros. */
#if ! (   defined(USE_LOCALE)                                               \
       &&    defined(USE_ITHREADS)                                          \
       && (  ! defined(USE_THREAD_SAFE_LOCALE)                              \
           || (   defined(HAS_LOCALECONV)                                   \
               && (  ! defined(HAS_LOCALECONV_L)                            \
                   ||  defined(TS_W32_BROKEN_LOCALECONV)))                  \
           || (   defined(HAS_NL_LANGINFO)                                  \
               && ! defined(HAS_THREAD_SAFE_NL_LANGINFO_L))                 \
           || (defined(HAS_MBLEN)  && ! defined(HAS_MBRLEN))                \
           || (defined(HAS_MBTOWC) && ! defined(HAS_MBRTOWC))               \
           || (defined(HAS_WCTOMB) && ! defined(HAS_WCRTOMB))))
[...]
#  define MBLEN_LOCK                NOOP
[...]
#else
[...]
#  if defined(HAS_MBLEN) && ! defined(HAS_MBRLEN)
#    define MBLEN_LOCK   LOCALE_LOCK_
#    define MBLEN_UNLOCK LOCALE_UNLOCK_
[...]

Shouldn't the first #define MBLEN_LOCK NOOP correspond to our case
where no locale support is available?

There was a massive rework of this stuff in upstream commit
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/d9e22c6a8a05aab7fffdbf810f74ddfcb4efd752,
which perhaps broke things.

I think I'll apply your patch anyway. I don't care very much about
!locale configs, and debugging the internals of Perl is beyond my
motivation.

Thomas
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Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-09 12:55 [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/perl: threads support needs locales Waldemar Brodkorb
2023-08-09 18:07 ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot [this message]
2024-01-02 20:26 ` Yann E. MORIN

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