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#41286
check for argp header
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Reported by: Nikita Gillmann <nikita <at> n0.is>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 13:16:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Tags: wontfix
Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
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Hi,
as mentioned in IRC I have begun porting Guix to NetBSD (with the path
taken not yet decided upon, just plain building guix itself for now).
Glibc provides argp. Arguably we don't have to check for argp because
Guix targets glibc. But I am quiete certain that there will be people
who will attempt to do what I am doing and run into this.
I haven't tested this, but semantically it should check out. I don't
know how much changed in guix's bootstrap but configure.ac should still be
the right place for this patch.
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Message #8 received at 41286 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
Hi Nikita,
Nikita Gillmann <nikita <at> n0.is> skribis:
> as mentioned in IRC I have begun porting Guix to NetBSD (with the path
> taken not yet decided upon, just plain building guix itself for now).
>
> Glibc provides argp. Arguably we don't have to check for argp because
> Guix targets glibc. But I am quiete certain that there will be people
> who will attempt to do what I am doing and run into this.
Guix targets glibc-based systems, so as you write, it’s reasonable to
assume argp is present.
Also, using AC_CHECK_HEADERS doesn’t achieve anything: it only defines
‘HAVE_ARGP_H’ to zero or one.
Last, I don’t want to discourage anyone from porting, but I also want to
be clear about what it entails. I’m strongly in favor of supporting
only glibc because: (1) after all, it’s about GNU as a system, and (2)
my experience with Nixpkgs is that supporting multiple C libraries is
just too much work to maintain good support.
Thus I’m closing for now.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
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