On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 09:49:10AM +0100, James Youngman wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:53 PM, Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I was trying to build util-linux-ng on uclibc and it failed
> [...]
> > which is understood because versionsort is GNU extension and uclibc does
> > not implement it.
> >
>
> > diff --git a/lib/strverscmp.c b/lib/strverscmp.c
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..7de473b
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/lib/strverscmp.c
> > @@ -0,0 +1,120 @@
> > +/* Compare strings while treating digits characters numerically.
> > + Copyright (C) 1997, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > + This file is part of the GNU C Library.
>
>
> How do you propose to keep the file in util-linux-ng up-to-date when
> the version in glibc changes? The glibc version will eventually get
> new features and bugfixes.
Sure, I have a check-list which I use before a release.
> Yes, I know that Linux systems running glibc will be using the glibc
> version of the file, and that having an old version of this file for
> the benefit of other systems is better than nothing, but I am
> interested in how we can solve the whole problem.
I thought about it in last days and I'll remove scandir() and
versionsort() from the code. We needn't it at all.
Karel
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