[OE-core] [PATCH 13/25] pseudo: adjust for attr 2.4.48

Seebs seebs at seebs.net
Wed Dec 18 16:21:54 UTC 2019


On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 17:15:34 +0100
Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 at 16:27, Seebs <seebs at seebs.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:37:46 +0100
> > Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > +Latest versions of attr have removed the xattr.h header,
> > > +with the rationale that libc is providing the same wrappers.
> >
> > I'm a bit concerned about this -- will this still work with *older*
> > versions of xattr?
> >
> 
> It won't, as attr upstream moved the definition of ENOATTR from one
> header file to another.
> 
> attr is supplied by oe-core though, so we have control over which
> version is used.

So basically, if I want to maintain support in pseudo for older xattr,
I need to figure out a way to try both. Thanks, attr devs. :P (Pseudo
is still sometimes used outside of oe-core.)

-s


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