linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scripts/unifdef.c: rename getline symbol to something else

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Date:	Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:56:51 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...radead.org>
Cc:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jakub@...hat.com, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts/unifdef.c: rename getline symbol to something
 else

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:59:42 -0400 Kyle McMartin <kyle@...radead.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 07:37:35PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > > Rawhide builds are currently failing to build unifdef.c, as the next
> > > version of glibc changes the default _POSIX_C_SOURCE level, which
> > > exposes getline() from <stdio.h>
> > > 
> > > scripts/unifdef.c:209: error: conflicting types for 'getline'
> > > /usr/include/stdio.h:653: note: previous declaration of 'getline' was
> > > here
> > > make[2]: *** [scripts/unifdef] Error 1
> > > make[1]: *** [__headers] Error 2
> > > make: *** [vmlinux] Error 2
> > > 
> > > Rename the symbol in unifdef.c to parseline to avoid this conflicting
> > > declaration.
> > 
> > I have a similar patch queued in kbuild-fixes.git.
> > 
> 
> Great, thanks. Is this going to go into the next -rc?
> 

I was going to put it into 2.6.29 but Sam stole it :)
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