Re: [LTP] [PATCH v2 1/7] Add fallback definitions for lapi/fs.h

Cyril Hrubis
2024-07-25T15:18:09Z

Hi!
> > However, if we want LTP could be built with all the middle glibc versions
> > (2.22 < glibc < 2.36)
> > this might be thinking over. Because we announce support the minimal
> > glibc-version is 2.22.
>
> Hm, it makes sense to keep it. But nobody will remember once we raise the
> support.

Maybe we should at least add a comment glibc-2.22 workaround or
something that could be found with grep.

> Also, removing HAVE_LINUX_FS_H [1] works in the CI [2], including distros with
> glibc 2.36 (minimal build [3] or all cross-compile builds, e.g. [4]).
>
> I wonder how realistic is that somebody is still affected by this issue.

That's a good question but I'm afraid the only way to find out is to
remove the workaround and wait for people complain that the next LTP
release is broken...

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Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz