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From: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/fix] Re: libbpf build broken on musl libc (Alpine Linux)
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 21:18:00 -0700
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Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@gmail.com>,
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 07:39:52PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2018 17:52:59 -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > LGPL-2.1 in the above?
> 
> Could we possibly make it dual licensed LGPL + BSD?

that's a separate discussion. let's not mix it up with this fix.

> > The rest looks good to me.
> > Should we take it via bpf-next tree?
> > If you feel there is an urgency to fix musl build, we can take it via
> > bpf tree too.
> >
> > Jakub, thoughts? you've been messing with strerror last..
> 
> Sorry for the mess, I didn't know libc compat is such a pain.
> 
> I kind of knowingly ignored the existing str_error_r(), as it didn't
> seem excessively clean.  Yet, two months later I have no better
> ideas..  We could as well switch back to the XSI version, which we used
> before I needed access to reallocarray() (I mean change the str_error()
> to be a plain XSI wrapper).
> 
> Perhaps placing the new helper in libbpf_errno.c file would make
> sense?  The only reason for this separate file to exist is in fact to
> make use of XSI-compliant strerror_r().

that's a good idea. libbpf_errno.c sounds more appropriate to me as well.

> Also, I need to go relicense tools/include/tools/libc_compat.h ASAP
> too :S

argh. an oversight. pls send the patch.