[RFC PATCH] Don't install libio.h or _G_config.h.

[Zack Weinberg]

On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 11:30 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 08/28/2017 04:06 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>>
>> It passes the testsuite on x86_64-linux, but it needs a great deal of
>> additional testing; in particular I'm almost certain I broke the
>> support for old-format (GLIBC_2.0) struct _IO_FILE, which is
>> configured out on this target.  Testing this properly would require
>> someone to get their hands on_really_  old binaries, compiled against
>> glibc 2.0, possibly statically-linked-but-using-NSS.  Unfortunately,
>> libc.so cannot be expected to be binary identical.
>
>
> elf/tst-audit1 and others break on i386.  Usually, this is due to
> dlmopen/stdio sync issues, but in this case, it might be caused by a
> _IO_stdin_used mismatch.  For some reason, I don't have debuginfo for the
> inner libc, so this is rather difficult to diagnose.  I won't be able to fix
> this before the freeze, I'm afraid.

Understood.  Thanks for trying.

> I think we should unify the libio locking first across glibc (aka get rid of
> _IO_MTSAFE_IO).  This will reduce the size of the patch a bit.

That makes sense.  For 2.27, I suggest we make the installed libio.h
and _G_config.h issue deprecation warnings.  I'll send a patch for
that under separate cover.

zw