The arguments of the LIBC_SLIBDIR_RTLDDIR macro are used both in unquoted
and single quoted context, so that neither shell nor makefile variable
references work. Consistently put them in single quotes so that they can
refer to makefile variables.
As per the recent discussion, this patch implements a requirement for
Linux 3.2 or later for x86 and x86_64. This is only the initial
change to increase the configured minimum; it's expected that followup
patches would deal with associated removal of conditionals that are no
longer needed. If we remove the start-up test on the kernel version,
of course the NEWS and README text should then be revised (to reflect
that this version is just one such that glibc does not intend to
include compatibility code for any older kernel version, rather than
older kernels necessarily failing to work or glibc necessarily having
compatibility code for newer interfaces).
The followups would be able to assume presence of getcpu (x86_64),
recvmmsg (not always through its own syscall, sometimes only through
socketcall), sendmmsg (likewise), /proc/$pid/task/$tid/comm, f_flags
from statfs, prlimit64.
Tested for x86_64 and x86.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/configure.ac (arch_minimum_kernel):
Remove.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/configure: Regenerated.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/64/configure.ac
(arch_minimum_kernel): Remove.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/64/configure: Regenerated.
* README: Update statement about Linux kernel requirements.
In <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-01/msg00885.html> I
proposed a minimum Linux kernel version of 3.2 for glibc 2.24, since
Linux 2.6.32 has reached EOL.
In the discussion in February, some concerns were expressed about
compatibility with OpenVZ containers. It's not clear that these are
real issues, given OpenVZ backporting kernel features and faking the
kernel version for guest software, as discussed in
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-02/msg00278.html>. It's
also not clear that supporting running GNU/Linux distributions from
late 2016 (at the earliest) on a kernel series from 2009 is a sensible
expectation. However, as an interim step, this patch increases the
requirement everywhere except x86 / x86_64 (since the controversy was
only about those architectures); the special caveats and settings can
easily be removed later when we're ready to increase the requirements
on x86 / x86_64 (and if someone would like to raise the issue on LWN
as suggested in the previous discussion, that would be welcome). 3.2
kernel headers are required everywhere by this patch.
(x32 already requires 3.4 or later, so is unaffected by this patch.)
As usual for such a change, this patch only changes the configure
scripts and associated documentation. The intent is to follow up with
removal of dead __LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION conditionals. Each __ASSUME_*
or other macro that becomes dead can then be removed independently.
Tested for x86_64 and x86.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure.ac (LIBC_LINUX_VERSION):
Define to 3.2.0.
(arch_minimum_kernel): Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure: Regenerated.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/configure.ac (arch_minimum_kernel):
Define to 2.6.32.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/configure: Regenerated.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/64/configure.ac
(arch_minimum_kernel): Define to 2.6.32.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/64/configure: Regenerated.
* README: Document Linux 3.2 requirement.
* manual/install.texi (Linux): Document Linux 3.2 headers
requirement.
* INSTALL: Regenerated.
In preparation to fix the --localedir configure argument we must
move the existing conflicting definition of localedir to a more
appropriate name. Given that all current internal uses of localedir
relate to the compiled locales we rename to complocaledir.
This patch continues removing architecture-specific cases from
non-architecture-specific files by moving the logic to use directories
such as /lib64 out of sysdeps/gnu/configure.ac.
A new macro LIBC_SLIBDIR_RTLDDIR is created that sysdeps configure
scripts can use to declare the library directories to be used; the
logic was previously duplicated in configure fragments for aarch64,
mips and x32 as well as in sysdeps/gnu/configure.ac. This macro is
used directly in sysdeps/gnu/configure.ac only to provide the /lib
default (the logic saying that with --prefix=/usr shared libraries go
in /lib not /usr/lib); the architecture cases formerly there are moved
into various new or existing configure.ac files. The new macro is
also used in the various architecture fragments that already had such
logic. In the x32 there was previously a configure fragment, but it
was a directly written one without a .ac file; now a .ac file is used
there instead to generate configure.
Tested x86_64 that the installed shared libraries, and the directory
structure of the installation, are unchanged by this patch.
There is an old bug report - bug 6441 - about library directories
changing after reconfiguring. If this is still applicable - and I
haven't attempted to confirm it or review the old patch pointed to in
that bug - then this patch should reduce the number of places needing
changing in any fix.
* aclocal.m4 (LIBC_SLIBDIR_RTLDDIR): New macro.
* sysdeps/gnu/configure.ac: Use LIBC_SLIBDIR_RTLDDIR. Remove
cases for individual architectures.
* sysdeps/gnu/configure: Regenerated.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/configure.ac: Use
LIBC_SLIBDIR_RTLDDIR.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/configure: Regenerated.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/configure.ac: Use
LIBC_SLIBDIR_RTLDDIR.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/configure: Regenerated.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc64/configure.ac: Use
LIBC_SLIBDIR_RTLDDIR.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc64/configure:
Regenerated.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-64/configure.ac: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-64/configure: New generated
file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/configure.ac: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/configure: New generated
file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/64/configure.ac: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/64/configure: New generated file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/x32/configure.ac: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/x32/configure: Generate.
