Re: [PATCH v2] libattr: Set symbol versions for legacy syscalls via attribute or asm

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jan 18 12:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> is there any progress in terms of merging this patch into attr?
> 
> I was working on getting attr-2.5.1 working on Cygwin last week.
> 
> The most recent package in the distro was 2.4.48.  I had to tweak the
> package a bit and I never pushed patches upstream.  To make up for
> that, I worked on current attr git master and provided my patches
> in https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?63670.
> 
> However, only *after* doing that, I scanned the acl-devel mailing
> list and found that this patch here was available.
> 
> Turns out, with Alexander's patch (which looks pretty good to me, btw)
> the patch I created for Cygwin was not required at all!  I only had to
> add "-no-undefined" to LDFLAGS in the distro spec file for attr, and
> voilà, latest attr works fine on CYgwin as well.
> 
> So, if anything is holding up this patch from Alexander, I'd be glad if
> my mail could vote for its inclusion into attr git master by providing
> a good example for its usability :)

For reference:
https://cygwin.com/git-cygwin-packages/?p=git/cygwin-packages/attr.git


Thanks,
Corinna