Re: PR 193 sitting for uClibC fix

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On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 11:57 AM Stephen Smalley
<stephen.smalley.work@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 12:52 PM Stephen Smalley
> <stephen.smalley.work@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 12:46 PM William Roberts
> > <bill.c.roberts@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 11:44 AM Stephen Smalley
> > > <stephen.smalley.work@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 12:22 PM William Roberts
> > > > <bill.c.roberts@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > This PR:
> > > > > https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/pull/193
> > > > >
> > > > > Has been sitting forever. I looked through the mailing list and didn't
> > > > > see any patches hit the list,
> > > > > we should either close it, or merge it.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thoughts? If we need it to hit the list, can I grab it and sign-off on
> > > > > it and post it?
> > > >
> > > > You can't sign-off on someone else's patch without them first signing off on it
> > > > or otherwise certifying to you that it falls under clauses (a), (b),
> > > > or (c) of the DCO.
> > >
> > > For some reason I just assumed it had a signed-off line, it doesn't though.
> > >
> > > > You could create your own patch to achieve the same end, especially
> > > > since this one is trivial and seems
> > > > to be modeled after an existing commit,
> > > > ab0e27003ef245f20512d1808b1dfee662ab8f41, so it
> > > > seems like it is relatively safe.
> > >
> > > I thought about creating it, but it's like how do I create such a trivial patch
> > > and not get hit with I copied it.
> >
> > IANAL, but IIUC when something can only be done one way, it isn't copyrightable.
> > Other possible ways to differentiate:
> > - libselinux/src/Makefile provides a FTS_LDLIBS ?= definition, which
> > was missing from their patch.
> > Not sure that matters.
> > - Instead of adding it LDLIBS for everything, could just add it where
> > needed, similar to PCRE_LDLIBS.
>
> Or you could just ping them on the github issue and ask if they will
> at least certify
> to the DCO as a github comment (or better, push a revised commit with sign-off)
> and then you can take it from there.

Already pinged once, I can try again and see. Give them to next week and if no
response submit something like this:

diff --git a/libselinux/utils/Makefile b/libselinux/utils/Makefile
index 361506384d08..32da04068b3c 100644
--- a/libselinux/utils/Makefile
+++ b/libselinux/utils/Makefile
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ else
 COMPILER ?= clang
 endif

+FTS_LDLIBS ?=
+
 ifeq ($(COMPILER), gcc)
 EXTRA_CFLAGS = -fipa-pure-const -Wpacked-bitfield-compat -Wsync-nand
-Wcoverage-mismatch \
        -Wcpp -Wformat-contains-nul -Wnormalized=nfc -Wsuggest-attribute=const \
@@ -45,7 +47,7 @@ endif

 override CFLAGS += -I../include -D_GNU_SOURCE $(DISABLE_FLAGS) $(PCRE_CFLAGS)
 override LDFLAGS += -L../src
-override LDLIBS += -lselinux
+override LDLIBS += -lselinux $(FTS_LDLIBS)
 PCRE_LDLIBS ?= -lpcre

 ifeq ($(ANDROID_HOST),y)



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