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Re: Upstreaming the glibc Hurd port
On Wed, 24 Jan 2018, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Joseph Myers, on ven. 19 janv. 2018 17:23:29 +0000, wrote:
> > Could Hurd people review how this handles building for Hurd,
>
> Yes, it looks good.
Thanks, I've committed it to master.
> > and indicate whether the above errors indicate problems with these
> > changes, or simply incompleteness of the build support on the
> > sthibaul/hurd-builds branch at present?
>
> They are not related to the changes. I have pushed fix updates against
> them.
Now I see errors about missing libc-lockP.h, and "implicit declaration of
function '__spin_lock_solid'", and the discarded qualifiers errors you
note below.
> There is just one missing thing: mig prototypes etc. are not perfect,
> and we thus have some nasty warnings about void * vs const void *. We'd
> have to use
>
> if self.os == 'gnu':
> cfg_cmd += ['MIG=%s' % self.tool_name('mig')]
> + cfg_cmd += ['--disable-werror']
>
> for now until we fix that.
A properly upstreamed port should not need --disable-werror. If
workarounds are needed until there's a fixed mig release (or whatever),
they could take the form of explicit casts, or CFLAGS-<file> +=
-Wno-error=discarded-qualifiers - disabling a particular warning being an
error in a particular file is much better than globally disabling all
warnings as errors. (Strictly -Wno-error=discarded-qualifiers shouldn't
be used unconditionally since that warning option is new in GCC 5 and
glibc supports building with GCC 4.9, but in the current state of the Hurd
port I think we can ignore that in Hurd-specific Makefiles.)
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com