Rich,
POSIX — like many other standard — allows different implementations to
behave differently. For example, iconv_open() and setlocale() behave
differently in different POSIX-compliant libc implementations. This is
OK. There is nothing wrong with it on either side.
Unit tests [1] need to take i
On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 03:56:29PM +0200, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> * Bruno Haible [2020-09-20 13:19:13 +0200]:
> > Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> > > Is this __DEFINED_va_list macro the official way of detecting musl?
> >
> > No, but in a world where the musl people don't want to provide an official
> >
* Bruno Haible [2020-09-20 13:19:13 +0200]:
> Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> > Is this __DEFINED_va_list macro the official way of detecting musl?
>
> No, but in a world where the musl people don't want to provide an official
> way [1][2] and the Alpine Linux people break their previously working way o
Hello,
On 2020-09-20 05:19, Bruno Haible wrote:
Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
Is this __DEFINED_va_list macro the official way of detecting musl?
No, but in a world where the musl people don't want to provide an official
way [1][2] and the Alpine Linux people break their previously working way of
de
On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 03:30:54PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> The value of $host_os, determined by the current config.guess, is:
> - On Alpine Linux 3.9: linux-musl
> - On Alpine Linux 3.10: linux-gnu
> - On Alpine Linux 3.12: linux-musl
>
> The reason is that config.guess tests 'ldd --ver
Hello,
On 2020-09-20 04:12, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 03:30:54PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
The value of $host_os, determined by the current config.guess, is:
- On Alpine Linux 3.9: linux-musl
- On Alpine Linux 3.10: linux-gnu
- On Alpine Linux 3.12: linux-musl
Th
Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> Is this __DEFINED_va_list macro the official way of detecting musl?
No, but in a world where the musl people don't want to provide an official
way [1][2] and the Alpine Linux people break their previously working way of
detecting musl [3], we (GNU) need to use our own heur
Ben Elliston wrote:
> > You are assuming that system programs have a test suite that will
> > protect them from introducing regressions? I don't think that's realistic.
> > Even glibc has regressions occasionally.
>
> Not really. It is not difficult for programmers to be disciplined and
> know the
