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On Thu, May 01, 2025 at 12:42:06PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
This bug was filed for a (very) old kernel or the bug is old itself
without resolution.
nolibc.h has been greatly expanded since then, it's a set of 30 includes
now. It's also a lot more useful now.
- the current version in unstable/testing
- the latest kernel from backports
I've checked experimental, as that's the branch relevant for forky.
Hi!
The kernel sources these days ship "nolibc.h", a stand-alone header that defines all syscalls and hides away per-arch differences. It's great for writing programs in libc-less situations and/or writing an ad-hoc minimal libc (and possibly eg. reducing 950KB /sbin/ldconfig to almost nothing).
Today I'd argue it _is_ a libc of sorts, thanks to scope creep.
Thus, could you please install this file?
Looking at the current state, I propose skipping this tool's Makefile which introduces unneeded moving parts and makes the header arch-dependent. It
also has hardcoded assumptions like installing directly to ${OUTPUT}sysroot/include and so on. All of this just to avoid 5 files.
Thus, it'd be enough to install:
tools/include/nolibc/*.h /usr/include/nolibc/
Meow!
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