netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] lib: fix multiple strlcpy definition

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Date:   Sat, 30 Sep 2017 23:29:41 +0300
From:   Baruch Siach <baruch@...s.co.il>
To:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] lib: fix multiple strlcpy definition

Hi Stephen,

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 11:58:58AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 21:02:11 +0300
> Baruch Siach <baruch@...s.co.il> wrote:
> 
> > Some C libraries, like uClibc and musl, provide BSD compatible
> > strlcpy(). Add check_strlcpy() to configure, and avoid defining strlcpy
> > and strlcat when the C library provides them.
> > 
> > This fixes the following static link error with uClibc-ng:
> > 
> > .../sysroot/usr/lib/libc.a(strlcpy.os): In function `strlcpy':
> > strlcpy.c:(.text+0x0): multiple definition of `strlcpy'
> > ../lib/libutil.a(utils.o):utils.c:(.text+0x1ddc): first defined here
> > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> > 
> > Acked-by: Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
> > Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@...s.co.il>
> 
> This is OK because it doesn't impact normal glibc too much.
> 
> > diff --git a/lib/Makefile b/lib/Makefile
> > index 0fbdf4c31f50..132ad00c3335 100644
> > --- a/lib/Makefile
> > +++ b/lib/Makefile
> > @@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
> >  include ../config.mk
> >  
> > +ifeq ($(NEED_STRLCPY),y)
> > +	CFLAGS += -DNEED_STRLCPY
> > +endif
> > +
> 
> I just removed all the conditional CFLAGS out of subdirectory Makefiles
> and moved them into the generated config.mk. Please do that for this
> as well and resubmit.

What code do you refer to? I don't see that as of current master 
(e4139268ba96).

baruch

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