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[Baruch Siach]

Hi Thomas,

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:58:16AM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 11:42:30 +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:
> 
> > > #ifdef __USE_SVID
> > > /* Determine whether the string value of RESPONSE matches the affirmation
> > >    or negative response expression as specified by the LC_MESSAGES category
> > >    in the program's current locale.  Returns 1 if affirmative, 0 if
> > >    negative, and -1 if not matching.  */
> > > extern int rpmatch (__const char *__response) __THROW __nonnull ((1)) __wur;
> > > #endif
> > 
> > Seems to be a patched uClibc.
> 
> Yes, see uclibc-0033-rpmatch-backport-function.patch in Buildroot.
> 
> > > See
> > > http://free-electrons.com/~thomas/pub/peko-i686-wchar-toolchain.tar.xz
> > > for a tarball of the full toolchain. But you will most likely not be
> > > able to use it: it's built to run on a PowerPC machine :)
> > 
> > So what is the correct solution for this?
> 
> The ideal solution would be to have a configure.ac test for rpmatch,
> but unfortunately, mtd-utils do not use autoconf.
> 
> I believe we said that we should not include patches that add
> functionality to uClibc, but it creates a difference between our
> patched uClibc, and other toolchains that don't have the same patches
> for uClibc.

Unfortunately this patch is queued in the 0.9.33 branch. This means the 
when/if version 0.9.33.3 is released it will break my fix. The only 
alternative I see is to just patch the rpmatch() call out of mtd-utils. I'm 
not sure upstream would like this solution though.

baruch

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