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Bug 10508 – qsort_r is not present on older Linux systems

Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: WONTFIX
Severity: minor
Priority: P2
Component: druntime
Product: D
Version: D2
Platform: All
OS: Linux
Creation time: 2013-06-29T21:49:14Z
Last change time: 2020-01-16T14:03:11Z
Keywords: pull
Assigned to: No Owner
Creator: Artem Tarasov

Comments

Comment #0 by lomereiter — 2013-06-29T21:49:14Z

The runtime expects the function to be available on all Linux systems, but it appeared only in GLIBC 2.8

Comment #1 by code — 2013-11-16T13:59:31Z

GLIBC 2.8 is almost 5 years old. Why do you need to use such an old libc?

Comment #2 by lomereiter — 2013-11-16T14:41:34Z

Some people still run CentOS 5.

Comment #3 by code — 2014-12-06T14:18:26Z

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/1059

Comment #4 by code — 2014-12-06T16:45:16Z

There are a few more issues for CentOS 5. The elf.h header is missing some newer relocation types, e.g. R_X86_64_PC64. Phobos is linking against libcurl.so.4, but only .so.3 is available. So if you're still interested in fixing those, please contribute :).

Comment #5 by pro.mathias.lang — 2020-01-16T14:03:11Z

Glibc 2.8 was released in April 2008: https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2008-04/msg00050.html CentOS 5 went EOL on 2017-03-31. Closing this as WONTFIX. Patches for supporting older platforms are welcome, but I don't think anyone going through the bug is going to tackle this.