Re: [OE-core] pseudo FTBFS with recent glibc

[Andrej Shadura <andrew.shadura@collabora.co.uk>]

Hi,

On 03/01/2022 14:47, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Fri, 2021-12-31 at 21:40 +0100, Andrew Shadura wrote:
>> pseudo started failing to build from the source apparently after a glibc
>> update [1] we had in Debian:
>>
>>>> In file included from pseudo_wrappers.c:46:
>>>> ports/unix/guts/symlinkat.c: In function ‘wrap_symlinkat’:
>>>> pseudo_client.h:14:65: error: ‘_STAT_VER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
>>>>     14 | #define base_fstatat(dirfd, path, buf, flags) real___fxstatat64(_STAT_VER, dirfd, path, buf, flags)
>>>>        |                                                                 ^~~~~~~~~
>>>> ports/unix/guts/symlinkat.c:37:14: note: in expansion of macro ‘base_fstatat’
>>>>     37 |         rc = base_fstatat(dirfd, newpath, &buf, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW);
>>>>        |              ^~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> A similar issue has been reported against fakeroot [2]. I guess,
>> something similar is required for pseudo as well.
>>
>> [0]: https://bugs.debian.org/1002136
>> [1]: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=8ed005daf0
>> [2]: https://salsa.debian.org/clint/fakeroot/-/merge_requests/10/diffs
>>
> 
> That looks to be a fairly old version of pseudo. This was fixed here:
> 
> https://git.yoctoproject.org/pseudo/commit/?h=oe-core&id=f332f5633b5dd73fa2b6e5d605eb33e4a446d7ad

I see. I didn’t realise the development moved to a different branch. How 
about deleting the master branch and making oe-core the default one if 
master is no longer in use? I think many more people may be missing out 
on updates if they only fetch the master branch.

-- 
Cheers,
   Andrej