Re: [bug-gnulib] New GNULIB glob module?

[Derek Price]

Paul Eggert wrote:

>Now for commentary on glob.h.
>
>Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com> writes:
>
>  
>
>>--- ../glibc-2.3.5/posix/glob.h       2004-09-16 20:55:15.000000000 -0400
>>+++ lib/glob_.h       2005-05-13 12:21:39.000000000 -0400
>>@@ -19,29 +19,48 @@
>> #ifndef      _GLOB_H
>> #define      _GLOB_H 1
>> 
>>-#include <sys/cdefs.h>
>>+#ifdef _LIBC
>>+# include <sys/cdefs.h>
>>+#else
>>+# include <sys/types.h>
>>+# include <stddef.h>
>>+# undef __size_t
>>+# define __size_t size_t
>>+#endif
>>    
>>
>
>Why do we need to include <sys/types.h> here?  All we need is size_t,
>right?  And stddef.h gives us that.
>  
>

If I don't, I get the following error:

In file included from glob.c:23:
glob.h:107: error: syntax error before "struct"
In file included from /usr/include/errno.h:36,
                 from glob.c:25:
/usr/include/bits/errno.h:38: error: syntax error before "extern"

Hrm.  Tracing this a little farther, it is only <features.h>, or even
the <sys/cdefs.h>, that glob_.h was originally including, and not
<sys/types.h>, which is needed to avoid the above error.  <features.h>
appears to define __USE_GNU (which the glob_.h file uses) when
_GNU_SOURCE is defined, but a #define __USE_GNU prior to the include of
<stddef.h> isn't sufficient to do the trick.  Have you seen anything
like this before?  I can't really tell the difference between
<sys/cdefs.h> and <features.h> with a simple test since they each appear
to include the other.  I'm personally inclined to leave the #include
<sys/types.h> since it is the standard header and it seems to fix
things, but perhaps you can give me more information?

>>+/* Some system libraries erroneously define these.  */
>>+#undef       GLOB_ERR
>>...
>>    
>>
>
>Which system libraries are these?  Perhaps a comment?
>  
>

I don't know.  I copied and pasted this comment and the #undef block
from the glob.c file.  It was previously placed just prior to the
#include of <glob.h>.  This looked the better place for it since I
assumed that we wouldn't want applications using the GNULIB glob module
to issue lots of redefinition warnings.

>>+# define getopt __GLOB_ID (getopt)
>>    
>>
>
>Surely this line is spurious and can be removed.
>  
>

Done.

>>-#if !defined __USE_FILE_OFFSET64 || __GNUC__ < 2
>>+#if !defined _LIBC || !defined __USE_FILE_OFFSET64 || __GNUC__ < 2
>>    
>>
>
>Can't we remove at least the "|| __GNUC__ < 2" here?  glibc assumes
>recent versions of GCC.
>  
>

I'll take your word for it.  I've also followed through to remove the
following block:

#if __USE_FILE_OFFSET64 && __GNUC__ < 2
# define glob glob64
# define globfree globfree64
#endif

And replaced this block:

# ifndef __size_t
#  if defined __GNUC__ && __GNUC__ >= 2
typedef __SIZE_TYPE__ __size_t;
#   ifdef __USE_XOPEN
typedef __SIZE_TYPE__ size_t;
#   endif
#  else
#   include <stddef.h>
#   ifndef __size_t
#    define __size_t size_t
#   endif
#  endif
# else

with this block:

# ifndef __size_t
typedef __SIZE_TYPE__ __size_t;
#  ifdef __USE_XOPEN
typedef __SIZE_TYPE__ size_t;
#  endif
# else

>> extern void __REDIRECT_NTH (globfree, (glob_t *__pglob), globfree64);
>> #endif
>>-
>> #ifdef __USE_LARGEFILE64
>> extern int glob64 (__const char *__restrict __pattern, int __flags,
>>                 int (*__errfunc) (__const char *, int),
>>    
>>
>
>Let's omit this change; it's a different matter.
>  
>

Done.

Still withholding my patch.  I have one more email to process.

Regards,

Derek