The old libio patch for glibc 2.2

Ulrich Drepper drepper@cygnus.com
Sun Aug 15 18:23:00 GMT 1999


hjl@varesearch.com (H.J. Lu) writes:

> The libio change in glibc 2.2 screwed up the binaries compiled against
> glibc 2.0. This patch seems to work ok. But I don't know if it is the
> best fix nor if it fixes all the old libio problems.

I would prefer to use versioning buf the duplication of the cost is
too expensive so I went with your patches.

> Also I am not sure if we should use versioning for _IO_setbuffer and
> _IO_setvbuf.

I don't think so.

> BTW, Ulrich, What happened to my patch
> 
> Sun Aug  8 10:56:43 1999  H.J. Lu  <hjl@gnu.org>
> 
>         * pwd/Makefile (otherlibs): Add necessary libraries if
>         $(build-static-nss) is defined as "yes".
>         * inet/Makefile (otherlibs): Likewise.

I don't like this patch and have to think about it more.

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