rpcgen -M support removed from glibc?

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

It appears that a patch was added to sunrpc/rpc_main.c that prints an
error message when the -M flag is supplied to rpcgen.  The -M flag
tells rpcgen to generate stubfiles in a Multi-Thread-Safe manner.
Without the -M flag, the RPC routines use static structures for return
values.

Support for the -M flag is in glibc, and has been for a long time.
However, this patch was added at some point relatively recently and
causes rpcgen to complain when either the -M flag or -N (multiple
arguments and call-by-value) flags are supplied.  The latter is
certainly a valid complaint, but the former is a perfectly valid
rpcgen option.

In particular, the patch says:

if (mtflag || newstyle) {
  // glibc doesn't support this
  ...
}

Can you please fix rpcgen?  The appropriate change would be to
change the above to:

if (newstyle) {
  // glibc doesn't support this
  ...
}

Thanks!

-derek

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