i have posted some code for hpux and aix to test under macosx and bsd programname (3) will do the job
bastien On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Gary V. Vaughan <i...@new-millenniuminc.com> wrote: > Hi Reuben, > > On 8 Dec 2010, at 22:32, Reuben Thomas wrote: >> On 8 December 2010 14:11, Gary V. Vaughan <g...@gnu.org> wrote: >>> If you are on a glibc system, I think the library provides the necessary >>> symbol and you should be able to build a working libposix from the topic >>> branch after a git pull. Otherwise you'll have to link in the progname >>> module, or similar to resolve it... until we come up with a blessed >>> method for dealing with it properly. >> >> Since I'm using glibc, I don't mind, but why is it a problem for a >> library? Doesn't it just place a requirement on the program linking >> against it, in the same way that the C runtime system does on main? > > glibc actually doesn't put that requirement on the main program, because > it automatically provides a suitable symbol to the gnulib error module. > > I haven't looked carefully or thought deeply about why my Mac OS X system > chokes during the link of libposix for the lack of a program_name symbol > or equivalent... but it's entirely likely that there's a reasonably portable > ands straight-forward way to clean things up for libposix without shipping > progname.c. When I'm not at the tail end of a long day of coding, I'll > find some time to think it through properly if no one has beaten me to a > good solution before then :) > > Cheers, > -- > Gary V. Vaughan (g...@gnu.org) > >
