Re: eglibc-2.16: old sunrpc vs. libtirpc?

["Yann E. MORIN" <yann dot morin dot 1998 at free dot fr>]

Johannes, All,

On Wednesday 31 October 2012 Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 02:06:23PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Wednesday 31 October 2012 12:31:38 Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> > > The postings I found say libtirpc is not ready yet,
> > > but I'm not sure if this is still true today.
> > 
> > nothing has changed
> > 
> > > What are/were the actual issues with TI-RPC?
> > 
> > it doesn't provide the entire API that glibc does
> 
> Hm, thinking more about it, even if eglibc is built
> with --enable-obsolete-rpc one could still use libtirpc
> to override the libc's rpc code, right?
> 
> So why not just unconditionally build eglibc
> with --enable-obsolete-rpc in ct-ng?

Patch? ;-)

Seriously, no problem with that. It's just so frustrating to have to deal
with this breakage in the first place...

But, this should be conditional on eglibc-2.16 or later, of course.
And glibc-2.16 or later when someone send a patch to add it, too. ;-p

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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