Re: <sys/sysctl.h> will disappear from rawhide glibc soon

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On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 5:50 PM Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This follows the removal of the system call from Linux 5.5.  Having the
> header and function just confuses configure checks that assume that if
> the function is present, it will do something useful (it never did on
> aarch64, and it's been many years since it worked on Fedora kernels on
> other architectures).
>
> Replacements are uname, getentropy, and reading from /proc, but I really
> do not expect much fallout from this (famous last words).
>
> The kernel headers still provide <linux/sysctl.h>, but that will
> eventually disappear as well.

java-1.8.0-openjdk also fails to build due to the missing header on
rawhide - this is blocking some work towards OpenJDK 11.

Fabio

> Thanks,
> Florian
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