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On 01 Jun 2015 14:39, Joseph Myers wrote: > 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>. that makes sense to me, but doesn't preclude my patch ... we could create a top level dir like "utils" and everything in there would be standalone. the release scripts would create a small glibc-utils-xxx.tar.bz2 at the same time. -mike
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