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* [PATCH] tools lib: Reinstate strlcpy() header guard with __UCLIBC__
@ 2016-08-17 20:00 Vineet Gupta
  2016-08-18 14:07 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 15+ messages in thread
From: Vineet Gupta @ 2016-08-17 20:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-snps-arc

perf tools build in recent kernels spews splat when cross compiling with uClibc

|   CC       util/alias.o
| In file included from tools/perf/util/../ui/../util/cache.h:8:0,
|                 from tools/perf/util/../ui/helpline.h:7,
|                 from tools/perf/util/debug.h:8,
|                 from arch/../util/cpumap.h:9,
|                 from arch/../util/env.h:5,
|                 from arch/common.h:4,
|                 from arch/common.c:3:
| tools/include/linux/string.h:12:15: warning: redundant redeclaration of ?strlcpy? [-Wredundant-decls]
|  extern size_t strlcpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t size);
               ^
This is after commit 61a6445e463a31 ("tools lib: Guard the strlcpy() header with
__GLIBC__"). While the commit was right in theory, issue is uClibc also
defines __GLIBC__ for application headers.

Instead of reverting the commit, manually revert with some addeed commentary to
same effect.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter at intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern at gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa at kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung at kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0 at huawei.com>
Cc: Petri Gynther <pgynther at google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz at infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta at synopsys.com>
---
 tools/include/linux/string.h | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/include/linux/string.h b/tools/include/linux/string.h
index b96879477311..5a9e30334ffa 100644
--- a/tools/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/tools/include/linux/string.h
@@ -8,7 +8,12 @@ void *memdup(const void *src, size_t len);
 
 int strtobool(const char *s, bool *res);
 
-#ifdef __GLIBC__
+/*
+ * Ideally instead of blacklisting libs which define this already (uclibc,
+ * musl..), we could whitelist libs which reuire it (glibc). However uClibc
+ * also defines __GLIBC__ for user application headers
+ */
+#ifndef __UCLIBC__
 extern size_t strlcpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t size);
 #endif
 
-- 
2.7.4

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2016-08-17 20:00 [PATCH] tools lib: Reinstate strlcpy() header guard with __UCLIBC__ Vineet Gupta
2016-08-18 14:07 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-08-18 16:03   ` Vineet Gupta
2016-08-18 16:17     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-08-19 14:22     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-08-19 18:01       ` Vineet Gupta
2016-08-19 19:23         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-08-19 20:09           ` Vineet Gupta
2016-08-19 21:10           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-08-19 21:27             ` Vineet Gupta
2016-08-19 21:42               ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-08-19 23:02                 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-08-22 18:01                   ` Alexey Brodkin
2016-08-22 18:08                     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-08-18 16:28   ` [PATCH v2] " Vineet Gupta

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