From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 72654 invoked by alias); 16 Nov 2017 13:12:09 -0000 Mailing-List: contact elfutils-devel-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: Sender: elfutils-devel-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 71704 invoked by uid 89); 16 Nov 2017 13:12:08 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Checked: by ClamAV 0.99.2 on sourceware.org X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,KB_WAM_FROM_NAME_SINGLEWORD autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=HTo:U*fw, radar, Hx-languages-length:970, HTo:D*io X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,KB_WAM_FROM_NAME_SINGLEWORD autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on sourceware.org X-Spam-Level: X-HELO: gnu.wildebeest.org Received: from wildebeest.demon.nl (HELO gnu.wildebeest.org) (212.238.236.112) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 13:12:07 +0000 Received: from tarox.wildebeest.org (tarox.wildebeest.org [172.31.17.39]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gnu.wildebeest.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CCC423002029; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 14:12:05 +0100 (CET) Received: by tarox.wildebeest.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BCBEA4000ABE; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 14:12:05 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <1510837925.6966.31.camel@klomp.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add replacement endian.h and byteswap.h to libgnu From: Mark Wielaard To: Florian Weimer , Ulf Hermann Cc: elfutils-devel@sourceware.org Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 13:12:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <87fu9e1suy.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> References: <13571bb4-a75a-070f-3d19-2da85637db23@qt.io> <87k1yq1vj3.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <021350f6-78df-9a10-cf36-b06ad119647e@qt.io> <87fu9e1suy.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Evolution 3.22.6 (3.22.6-10.el7) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-q4/txt/msg00048.txt.bz2 On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 10:21 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Ulf Hermann: > > Well, there are a lot of other issues to be fixed if you want to build > > elfutils on anything non-gcc. We could add a further check for those > > builtins and sys/param.h and then add a somewhat less trivial version > > of endian.h and byteswap.h if they are missing. But that would likely > > involve other compiler extensions or OS-specific headers. >=20 > Ah, fair enough.=C2=A0=C2=A0I mainly wanted to increase awareness of the = patch > because it has not been merged yet. Yeah, sorry for dropping some of these older patches. I admit they aren't really on my radar anymore. So please do ping them if you want to get them integrated. But I believe we never fully finished the discussion about whether or not to adopt gnulib for things like this. Which I think is a better idea than having to maintain our own versions. Cheers, Mark