On Thu, 2021-07-29 at 14:49 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-07-29 at 12:59 +0000, Khem Raj wrote:
> > Latest upgrade to 249 broke a working build on musl, this is incremental
> > fix to exisiting patches adapted to 249 release
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@microsoft.com>
> > ---
> >  ...002-don-t-use-glibc-specific-qsort_r.patch |  24 +--
> >  ...missing.h-check-for-missing-strndupa.patch | 173 +++++++++---------
> >  .../0006-Include-netinet-if_ether.h.patch     | 147 ++++++++-------
> >  ...OB_BRACE-and-GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC-is-not-.patch |  20 +-
> >  ...T_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW-flag-to-faccessat.patch |  14 +-
> >  ...-not-disable-buffer-in-writing-files.patch | 143 ++++++---------
> >  .../systemd/0026-Handle-missing-gshadow.patch |  18 +-
> >  7 files changed, 247 insertions(+), 292 deletions(-)
> > 
> 
> Having a look at the patches, a few comments:
> 
> - 0001-test-parse-argument-Include-signal.h.patch was merged upstream,
> but never removed, I think because it was refactored so it applies
> cleanly and doesn't raise errors?
> 
> - 0005-src-basic-missing.h-check-for-missing-strndupa.patch this is
> massive and will keep growing and breaking the build, wouldn't it be
> better to just implement strndupa in musl? Even out-of-tree it sounds
> like it would be easier to maintain than this
> 
> - 0006-Include-netinet-if_ether.h.patch sounds like it should be doable
> in a way that is compatible with both glibc and musl, and thus could be
> upstreamed?
> 
> - 0010-Use-uintmax_t-for-handling-rlim_t.patch can be upstreamed but
> needs to be reworked slightly as explained in 
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/7199#issuecomment-358268647
> which seems worth doing to me
> 
> - 0012-don-t-pass-AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW-flag-to-faccessat.patch I find
> quite worrying, as it fundamentally changes access patterns, some of
> which are done for security reasons. At best, this will cause
> completely different runtime behaviours for the same filesystem
> depending on the libc implementation, which doesn't sound great?
> 
> - 0016-Hide-__start_BUS_ERROR_MAP-and-__stop_BUS_ERROR_MAP.patch sounds
> like a genuine bug, have you tried upstreaming it?
> 
> - 0019-Handle-missing-LOCK_EX.patch I see no problem upstreaming this
> 
> - 0028-missing_syscall.h-Define-MIPS-ABI-defines-for-musl.patch should
> also be fine to upstream I think, in src/basic/missing_syscall_def.h

Also isn't 0001-binfmt-Don-t-install-dependency-links-at-install-
tim.patch doable with two drop-ins and a post-install adjustment in the
recipe, rather than with a patch?

This also sounds like a good candidate for a drop-in, doesn't seem
generally applicable to me:

https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=f65757ad1791a46cc210141c84ccc51552171e98

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi