Re: musl compatibility

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 08/06/2012 12:19, Pedro Alves ha scritto:
>> > Have you any plans to address these problems? In particular, it does
>> > seem odd to place a burden on libc authors of porting gnulib to it,
>> > rather than just not supporting those functions which require
>> > non-standard APIs on such libc's.
> I've heard such rants as well.  The rants are IMO, misdirected.  For instance,
> IIRC, gnulib's freadahead use is caused by musl's printf not being posix
> compliant, causing gnulib to pull in its printf replacement, which doesn't 
> work
> on musl.  A library that is new, actively maintained, and that calls itself
> a "C/POSIX standard library" should really address that by making it's printf
> posix compliant, so that gnulib's fallback doesn't even get built.  It seems 
> that
> nobody who is interested in musl has looked at gnulib's config.log to 
> understand
> why does gnulib think musl's printf is not good enough.

While I agree with this, perhaps we can follow the suggestion and
replace "if (freadahead (f))" with "if (freading(f) && !feof(f))" in
closein.c.

Paolo