Bug 524482

Summary:	sys-libs/glibc should not build c_stubs
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	PaX Team <pageexec>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers <toolchain>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description PaX Team 2014-10-05 01:04:39 UTC

glibc's src_configure.eblit:glibc_do_configure() already filters out glibc-compat, is there any reason why c_stubs is still needed? (FYI, it's totally crap code, mixes up function signatures all over the place)

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2014-10-17 18:03:14 UTC

the compat code and the stubs code fulfilled different purposes.  the compat was to ease migration between <=glibc-2.0 and newer versions.  the oldest version Gentoo cares about nowadays is glibc-2.3.6.

the stubs code however is for building small static apps that don't rely on external gconv.  that applies today still.

who actually uses this, i'm not sure.  but the overhead on our side is nil.