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

[Corinna Vinschen]

Ping?

Any input from one of the attr maintainer?  Please?

On Jan 18 12:57, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 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