newlib vs. libiberty mismatch breaks build (Re: [PATCH] Export psignal on all platforms)

[Corinna Vinschen]

On May  5 11:09, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
>   This list does not include psignal, which indeed newlib did not provide
>   -- until yesterday, when that patch was committed ...
> 
> 
> I'm not quite sure how to fix this ...  any suggestions?  Did this problem
> occur in the past when newlib was extended to provide some new function?
> 
> I guess the immediate build problem will disappear once the libiberty
> prototype is fixed to include const, but then we'll just have two copies
> of psignal (one in newlib, one in libiberty), which may not be ideal
> either.

Developers using libiberty don't have to use newlib so the definition
in libiberty still makes sense, right?

I don't know how to avoid this problem in configure, other than by adding
AC_LIBOBJ([psignal]).


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Project Co-Leader
Red Hat