Re: [PATCH] memusagestat: use local glibc when linking [BZ #18465]

[Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>]

On Sun, 31 May 2015, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> writes:
> 
> > On 30 May 2015 22:20, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> >> Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> writes:
> >> 
> >> > The memusagestat is the only binary that has its own link line which
> >> > causes it to be linked against the existing installed C library.  It
> >> > has been this way since it was originally committed in 1999, but I
> >> > don't see any reason as to why.
> >> 
> >> Probably because $(objpfx)memusagestat.o is compiled specially.
> >
> > how so ?
> 
> # The configure.ac check for libgd and its headers did not use $SYSINCLUDES.
> # The directory specified by --with-headers usually contains only the basic
> # kernel interface headers, not something like libgd.  So the simplest thing
> # is to presume that the standard system headers will be ok for this file.
> $(objpfx)memusagestat.o: sysincludes = # nothing

One option is splitting out memusagestat and other installed executables 
not depending on glibc internals or required by the glibc testsuite into a 
separate package, built using an installed C library, as I suggested in 
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-05/msg00682.html> and 
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-11/msg00367.html>.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com