Re: [PATCH] Introduce --enable-math-noprivate

[Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>]

On 05/16/2018 06:54 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 05/11/2018 05:43 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > Avoid errno@GLIBC_PRIVATE if enabled.  Additional work is needed
> > to eliminate further GLIBC_PRIVATE symbol references.
> >
> > 2018-05-11  Florian Weimer<fweimer@redhat.com>
> >
> >     Introduce --enable-math-noprivate.
> >     Avoid errno@GLIBC_PRIVATE if enabled.
> >     * config.h.in (CONFIG_MATH_NOPRIVATE): Define.
> >     * config.make.in (config-math-noprivate): New variable.
> >     * configure.ac: Recognize --enable-math-noprivate option.
> >     * manual/install.texi (Configuring and compiling): Document
> >     --enable-math-noprivate.
> >     * configure: Regenerate.
> >     * INSTALL: Likewise.
> >     * include/errno.h: Do not redefine errno for libm, libmvec if
> >     CONFIG_MATH_NOPRIVATE.
>
> Ping.  These patches
>
> <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-05/msg00501.html>
> <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-05/msg00541.html>
>
> allow building libm.so.6 without GLIBC_PRIVATE references on aarch64, 
> and on x86-64 if --disable-multi-arch is also specified (I have a patch 
> to add multi-arch support for the latter, but I need to come up with 
> something that reduces the maintenance burden).

Ping?

What's the general feeling regarding this feature?

Thanks,
Florian