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This function cannot be easily and (more importantly) correctly ported without cooperation from the libc stdio layer. We already document that users should be prepared to have the function not available on some platforms and that they should ideally switch their code to other more portable and better interfaces. Instead of making the build fail, and requiring porters to add exceptions for something that most probably cannot be ported correctly anyway, simply print a warning and let it build. This will not be a regression because on those systems libbsd would have never been built before. Prompted-by: Jens Finkhaeuser <jens@finkhaeuser.de>
libbsd - Utility functions from BSD systems This library provides useful functions commonly found on BSD systems, and lacking on others like GNU systems, thus making it easier to port projects with strong BSD origins, without needing to embed the same code over and over again on each project. A BSD compatible message-digest library is required, on systems where this is not provided by its libc or libmd libraries, the canonical implementation to use is <https://www.hadrons.org/software/libmd/>. Releases -------- <https://libbsd.freedesktop.org/releases/> Mailing List ------------ The subscription interface and web archives can be found at: <https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libbsd> The mail address is: libbsd@lists.freedesktop.org Source Repository ----------------- The primary repository can be browsed at: <https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libbsd> and cloned from: <https://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/libbsd> Building from git source ------------------------ To prepare the libbsd source tree from git before starting the build process some required software needs to be installed: GNU autoconf >= 2.67 GNU automake >= 1.9 GNU libtool >= 2.0 After installing the needed software, and running the following command on the git tree: $ ./autogen the source should be roughly equivalent to the distributed tar source. Building from tar source ------------------------ The minimum software required to configure and build dpkg from a tarball is: C89 compiler make The following software might be required depending on the system: libmd (whenever the libc does not provide the needed digest functions) The build process is done by running the usual «./configure; make». To see all available configuration options please run «./configure --help».