s390/s390-64 missing xattr exports

Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de
Tue Aug 20 01:03:00 GMT 2002


On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 12:29:27AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
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> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
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> > This is an addon library, so you had to add -lattr to your LDFLAGS to
> > use it.  So if you actually want the hard libattr names not to override
> > the weak glibc ones you have to change your package anyway.
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> What "weak glibc ones"?  Weak symbols are not treated special in dynamic 
> linking.  If your design is based on this you better revise it.

What design?  What I said is that you have to remove the -lattr to
actually get the glibc defintions of the *xattr calls.  In fact it
doesn't matter now as they do exactly the same - the only thing I moan
about is that having the same header for two different libraries is a
bad idea.



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