Opened 2 weeks ago

Closed 6 hours ago

#5783 closed enhancement (wontfix)

Move libsigsegv from BLFS to LFS

Reported by: Bruce Dubbs Owned by: Bruce Dubbs
Priority: normal Milestone: 12.5
Component: Book Version: git
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

This is used for m4, grep, and gawk.

Change History (4)

comment:1 by Bruce Dubbs, 44 hours ago

Owner: changed from lfs-book to Bruce Dubbs
Status: new → assigned

comment:2 by Xi Ruoyao, 8 hours ago

Hmm should we reconsider this?

For gawk: 

Changes from 5.2.x to 5.3.0
---------------------------

1. Infrastructure changes: Removed the use of libsigsegv. The 
   value-add was never very much and it caused problems in some
   environments.

For grep: 

  --with-libsigsegv       use the GNU libsigsegv library, when present,
                          instead of the gnulib module 'sigsegv'

and this option isn't enabled by default (even with libsigsegv installed). Why is libsigsegv better than the gnulib module?

m4 is same as grep.

Last edited 8 hours ago by Xi Ruoyao (previous) (diff)

comment:3 by Xi Ruoyao, 8 hours ago

Per ​https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2021-05/msg00072.html it's really intentional to use gnulib sigsegv instead of libsigsegv. IMO we should close this as INVALID.

comment:4 by Bruce Dubbs, 6 hours ago

Resolution: → wontfix
Status: assigned → closed

This is unnecessary, but we probably should remove the references to it in the dependencies page.

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