From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Remove --enable-obsolete-nsl configure flag
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 06:16:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200708131628.GA3289@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cf1f91271d178a79916f2d734ffbf4593cef5ee0.1594209330.git.fweimer@redhat.com>
On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 02:05:56PM +0200, GNU C Library wrote:
> From: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
>
> this means that *always* libnsl is only built as shared library for
> backward compatibility and the NSS modules libnss_nis and libnss_nisplus
> are not built at all, libnsl's headers aren't installed.
>
> This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs that have
> been added in or before version 2.28.
>
> Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
> IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>.
>
> This change does not affect libnss_compat which does not depended
> on libnsl since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
>
> libnsl code depends on Sun RPC, e.g. on --enable-obsolete-rpc (installed
> libnsl headers use installed Sun RPC headers), which will be removed in
> the following commit.
Without --enable-obsolete-nsl nor --enable-obsolete-rpc, are the installed
glibc binaries and header files the same as before this patch, excluding
debug info? If the answer is yes, it is OK.
Thanks.
H.J.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-08 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-08 12:05 [PATCH 0/3] sunrpc removal Florian Weimer
2020-07-08 12:05 ` [PATCH 1/3] Move non-deprecated RPC-related functions from sunrpc to inet Florian Weimer
2020-07-08 12:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-07-08 12:23 ` Florian Weimer
2020-07-08 12:56 ` H.J. Lu
2020-07-08 12:05 ` [PATCH 2/3] Remove --enable-obsolete-nsl configure flag Florian Weimer
2020-07-08 13:16 ` H.J. Lu [this message]
2020-07-08 14:55 ` Florian Weimer
2020-07-08 14:57 ` H.J. Lu
2020-07-08 15:22 ` Florian Weimer
2020-07-08 15:23 ` H.J. Lu
2020-07-08 12:06 ` [PATCH 3/3] Remove --enable-obsolete-rpc " Florian Weimer
2020-07-08 13:17 ` H.J. Lu
2020-07-10 9:58 ` Petr Vorel
2020-07-10 10:48 ` Florian Weimer
2020-07-10 10:56 ` Petr Vorel
2020-07-08 13:02 ` [PATCH 0/3] sunrpc removal H.J. Lu
2020-07-08 13:06 ` Florian Weimer
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