svn commit: r324815 - in head: lib/libc/gen sys/sys

[Ian Lepore]

On Sun, 2018-09-02 at 16:16 +0200, Jan Beich wrote:
> Michal Meloun <mmel at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> 
> > 
> > Author: mmel
> > Date: Sat Oct 21 12:06:18 2017
> > New Revision: 324815
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/324815
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Make elf_aux_info() as public libc function.
> >   - Teach elf aux vector functions about newly added AT_HWCAP and
> > AT_HWCAP2
> >     vectors.
> >   - Export _elf_aux_info() as new public libc function
> > elf_aux_info(3)
> >   
> >   The elf_aux_info(3) should be considered as FreeBSD counterpart
> > of glibc
> >   getauxval() with more robust interface.
> Can you back it out? I've reported sys/auxv.h breaks existing
> consumers
> and the function is yet to be documented. 12.0-RELEASE is approaching
> but there's no fix in sight, and by the time it lands there maybe
> not enough time to test.
> 
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?03a31eff-34e8-be4c-c008-528824fea
> 261
> 

Are you seriously suggesting that freebsd is forbidden to add a system
header file of any name it chooses, just because some port's autotools
stuff mistakenly assumes the presence of that name implies something
linux-specific? If the port is broken, fix it.

-- Ian