Re: Bug#771052: fish: FTBFS on hurd-i386
On Wed, 26 Nov 2014, Svante Signell wrote:
> Currently fish FTBFS on GNU/Hurd due to usage of sys_nerr and
> sys_errlist, for error strings, which is not defined on Hurd and
> depreciated (but still defined on other architectures): e.g.
> /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/sys_errlist.h
> /* sys_errlist and sys_nerr are deprecated. Use strerror instead. */
>
> The attached patch solves this by using strerror().
Hi Svante,
Above the lines you have changed is a comment:
// In general, strerror is not async-safe, and therefore we cannot use it directly
// So instead we have to grub through sys_nerr and sys_errlist directly
Do you know if this has changed in recent glibc? If not, I would caution
against changing this on all platforms.
David Adam
fish committer
zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
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