Re: findutils on interix

[Markus Duft]

On 10/28/10 14:43, Markus Duft wrote:
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>> another solution that came to my mind: i'm maintaining a library, who's sole 
>> purpose is to fix the incorrect behaviour of libc in some regards on interix 
>> (libsuacomp [1]). it does some "bad" things already ( ;p ), so maybe i could 
>> override the sysconf() function (it already overrides approx 70 
>> functions...), and make it return a sane value in the _SC_ARG_MAX case. that 
>> would make the whole problem disappear, and even the first (pushed) patch 
>> unnecessary.
> 
> i implemented this, thus findutils can continue like before :) so the 
> previous (already pushed) patch is no longer necessary (sorry for consuming 
> your time...). actually, the patch is now harmfull, as _SC_ARG_MAX is now the 
> only source of "good" information... :[

Hi!

Sorry for reviving such an old thread... :)

i never got an answer on the last mail, and i just saw, that there is still 
some quirks going on in my findutils-4.5.9 ebuild regarding this issue.

Since i fixed sysconf() for interix through [1], it'd be neccessary to revert 
[2] in the findutils git repo. Is that ok for you? Doing so will require 
libsuacomp when building findutils. nothing has to be done on the findutils 
side though, as suacomp installs itself as libc.{a,so}, and thus gets in 
automatically.

[1] 
https://sourceforge.net/p/suacomp/git/ci/624ac7406b484e60395cac3096121314a3c72efb/
[2] 
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/findutils.git/commit/?id=107af5aa0cd8cb6551e12c3ed0c21066f0fbd19f

Thanks,
markus

> 
> i will still keep an eye on it on my interix boxes whether this works in all 
> situations.
> 
> this is IMHO the best solution, as it takes the responsibility from findutils 
> to work around existing OS bugs, when there is a library, doing this exact 
> thing. there is not even a need to make findutils know libsuacomp, as suacomp 
> installs a libc.so and libc.a linker scripts into it's prefix. as soon as 
> this path is in the linker path, it works (and in gentoo prefix on interix i 
> have linker and compiler wrappers assuring this).
> 
> sorry, that i didn't have that idea earlier, would have saved some work for 
> all of us.
> 
> are you ok with this solution?
> 
> markus
> 
>>
>> what do you think?
>>
>> [1] http://sf.net/projects/suacomp
>>
>> markus
>>
>>>
>>> James.
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