On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Felix Janda <felix.ja...@posteo.de> wrote:
> Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> On 27/04/15 09:13, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> > On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 22:33:28 +0200
>> > Felix Janda <felix.ja...@posteo.de> wrote:
>> >
>> >> They are equivalent but the former is more common. PATH_MAX is
>> >> specified by POSIX and needs <limits.h> while MAXPATHLEN has BSD
>> >> origin and needs <sys/param.h>.
>> >>
>> >> PATH_MAX has already been in use in misc/lnstat.h.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Felix Janda <felix.ja...@posteo.de>
>> >
>> > Iproute2 is intended for use on Linux.
>> > It makes more sense to align with Posix than using leftover
>> > BSD stuff. Therefore I don't see any point in doing this.
>>
>> My reading from Felix's commit message is that he is attempting to do
>> exactly that: conform to POSIX rather than BSD, which seems to be the
>> direction you are also suggesting here.
>> --
>> Florian
>
> This is correct. (In fact I misread the end of Stephen's message,
> thought that the patch was merged and wanted to thank for that.)
What's the status of this patch? This is one of the reasons iproute2
cannot be compiled against musl C library. After fixing this I get
tons of redefine errors:
In file included from ../include/linux/xfrm.h:4:0,
from xfrm_state.c:31:
../include/linux/in6.h:32:8: error: redefinition of ‘struct in6_addr’
struct in6_addr {
^
In file included from
/home/user/Documents/versioned/buildroot/output/host/usr/arm-buildroot-linux-musleabi/sysroot/usr/include/netdb.h:9:0,
from xfrm_state.c:30:
/home/user/Documents/versioned/buildroot/output/host/usr/arm-buildroot-linux-musleabi/sysroot/usr/include/netinet/in.h:24:8:
note: originally defined here
struct in6_addr
^
In file included from ../include/linux/xfrm.h:4:0,
from xfrm_state.c:31:
../include/linux/in6.h:40:0: warning: "s6_addr" redefined
#define s6_addr in6_u.u6_addr8
^
In file included from
/home/user/Documents/versioned/buildroot/output/host/usr/arm-buildroot-linux-musleabi/sysroot/usr/include/netdb.h:9:0,
from xfrm_state.c:30:
/home/user/Documents/versioned/buildroot/output/host/usr/arm-buildroot-linux-musleabi/sysroot/usr/include/netinet/in.h:32:0:
note: this is the location of the previous definition
#define s6_addr __in6_union.__s6_addr
^
Yegor
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