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Sub-question to the above:

What alternatives are there to #gnulib for cross-platform C/C++ portability?

Sub-question to the above:

What alternatives are there to #gnulib for cross-platform C/C++ portability?

Riddle me this, Fediverse.

#plptools uses #gnulib. On #FreeBSD 14.x, everything compiles fine. However, on FreeBSD 15.0, I get the following error:

ld: error: undefined symbol: rpl_fnmatch

What's changed between 14 and 15 that would cause this? More likely, what's confused gnulib in FreeBSD 15?

#AskFedi #hivemind #LazyWeb

Riddle me this, Fediverse.

#plptools uses #gnulib. On #FreeBSD 14.x, everything compiles fine. However, on FreeBSD 15.0, I get the following error:

ld: error: undefined symbol: rpl_fnmatch

What's changed between 14 and 15 that would cause this? More likely, what's confused gnulib in FreeBSD 15?

#AskFedi #hivemind #LazyWeb

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I have love/hate relationship with #gnulib. When it works it's lovely, when it breaks it's hours of agony.

I have love/hate relationship with #gnulib. When it works it's lovely, when it breaks it's hours of agony.

GNUlibis an interesting beast.

It's a library designed to be copied into another project, not as a dependency, but as intrinsic element.

There are some benefits to this model, as blind sharing of dynamic objects or expressing explicit dependencies has other costs, but the clear issue is that the copy of #gnulib is buggy or old.

I wonder if there are any distributions that apply gnulib updates to packaged software, similar to how autotools data is re-generated in #Debian?

Feel free to boost.

GNUlibis an interesting beast.

It's a library designed to be copied into another project, not as a dependency, but as intrinsic element.

There are some benefits to this model, as blind sharing of dynamic objects or expressing explicit dependencies has other costs, but the clear issue is that the copy of #gnulib is buggy or old.

I wonder if there are any distributions that apply gnulib updates to packaged software, similar to how autotools data is re-generated in #Debian?

Feel free to boost.

TIL use of gnulib's obstack API on glibc systems adds exported dynamic symbols to final binaries (normally harmless but somewhat unusual thing for programs that don't load plugins).

Even '/bin/ls' has a few of those exported out of a binary:

$ nm -D `which ls` | grep -v '^ '
00000000004c0d40 T _obstack_allocated_p
0000000000534808 D obstack_alloc_failed_handler
00000000004c0bd0 T
...

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2022-12/msg00121.html

#gnulib #bug #dynamiclinking

Debugging build failures can lead you straight down into rabbit holes... #gnulib #libtasn1 #gnu #gnutls
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2022-11/msg00138.html

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