On Wednesday, September 22, 2021 1:01:58 PM EDT Paul Cercueil wrote:
>> IPX is marked obsolete for serveral years. so remove it and
the
>> dependency in linux tree.
>> I'm sorry to not thinking about linux-audit and strace.
>> Might you remove the dependency or make the part of the code.
>> Many thanks.
>
> Unfortunately, that is not how UAPI works. That change breaks
> building
> of the existing code; one cannot change already released versions
> of either audit, strace, or any other userspace program that happens
> to unconditionally include <linux/ipx.h> without any fallback (like
> <netipx/ipx.h> provided by glibc).
Also, the <netipx/ipx.h> fallback is only provided by glibc (and maybe
uclibc?). With this patch, it is now impossible to compile even the
very latest version of "strace" with a musl toolchain.
I've made support for ipx optional in audit user space a couple weeks back.
It's no longer a problem for us.
-Steve