Package: linux-libc-dev
Version: 5.10.5-1
Severity: wishlist

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).

Thus, could you please install this file?


Meow!

Hi

This bug was filed for a (very) old kernel or the bug is old itself
without resolution. Maybe it was for a feature enablement which nobody
acted on. We are sorry we were not able to timely deal with this issue.
There are many open bugs for the src:linux package and thus we are
closing older bugs where it's unclear if they still occur in newer
versions and are still relevant to the reporter. For an overview see:
https://bugs.debian.org/src:linux .

If you can reproduce your issue with

- the current version in unstable/testing
- the latest kernel from backports

or, if it was a feature addition/wishlist and still consider it
relevant, then:

Please reopen the bug, see https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control
for details.

Please try to provide as much fresh details including kernel logs where
relevant. In particular were an issue is coupled with specific hardware we
might ask you to do additional debugging on your side as the owner of the
hardware.

Regards,
Salvatore

Hi

This bug was filed for a (very) old kernel or the bug is old itself
without resolution. Maybe it was for a feature enablement which nobody
acted on. We are sorry we were not able to timely deal with this issue.
There are many open bugs for the src:linux package and thus we are
closing older bugs where it's unclear if they still occur in newer
versions and are still relevant to the reporter. For an overview see:
https://bugs.debian.org/src:linux .

If you can reproduce your issue with

- the current version in unstable/testing
- the latest kernel from backports

or, if it was a feature addition/wishlist and still consider it
relevant, then:

Please reopen the bug, see https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control
for details.

Please try to provide as much fresh details including kernel logs where
relevant. In particular were an issue is coupled with specific hardware we
might ask you to do additional debugging on your side as the owner of the
hardware.

Regards,
Salvatore

Control: reopen -1

nolibc.h has been greatly expanded since then, it's a set of 30 includes
now.  It's also a lot more useful now.

I've checked experimental, as that's the branch relevant for forky.

Today I'd argue it _is_ a libc of sorts, thanks to scope creep.

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!