On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 at 09:14:30 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> maybe it's more common these days to have plugin libraries
> that aren't linked with libc? Back in the day, it was very rare for people
> to successfully manage to write code that never called a libc symbol.
In ecosystems with a "platform" runtime library like GLib, Qt or even
SDL, and especially when intending to be portable to Windows and macOS
as well as Linux and other Unixy platforms, it's very common to write
code that only ever calls into that runtime library, and never directly
calls libc functions. I think the reason Jeremy is so negative about this
lintian check is that false positives are particularly common in GNOME,
where basically everything is linked to GLib and uses its functions in
preference to going directly to libc.
smcv
