qsort_r and libc.a version?

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 2/6/2014 2:04 PM, Jim Garrison wrote:
> I tried to build libgit2 so I could try to build gitg but encountered
>
>      undefined reference to `qsort_r'
>
> GitHub has a closed issue for this
> https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/issues/1606 saying that qsort_r was added
> to glibc in version 2.8, released in 2008.
>
> Since libc in Cygwin is part of the base package, how would I find out
> which upstream version it's based on?

Cygwin uses newlib for its C library.  From what I can see, qsort is there
but qsort_r isn't.

> There was a commit in libgit2 that was supposed to fix this :
>
> https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/commit/0d77647adc1f76df66e437e6442d7f7706e2c38e#diff-bb2cd4651768482b99cb1c52d29ceffdR694
>
> but I don't know enough about Cygwin internals to determine why it still
> fails on Cygwin.

The problem with that patch is that it doesn't take Cygwin into account.
If you append a check for Cygwin there as well (i.e. defined(__CYGWIN__) )
then that should resolve the compile issue.

-- 
Larry

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