#59 The "major" and "minor" macros will move header in future glibc

[Andreas Huettel]

I realize this is a bit proactive, but... From glibc upstream:

"In some future release, glibc's <sys types.h=""> will not include <sys sysmacros.h=""> anymore. As of 2.25, it still does, but you get deprecation warnings if you use the macros without including <sys sysmacros.h="">. We have not decided exactly which future release will finally remove the #include; to help us decide, please send reports of software that trips the deprecation warnings to libc-alpha."</sys></sys></sys>

autoconf already has AC_HEADER_MAJOR, which sets MAJOR_IN_SYSMACROS if the sys/sysmacros.h include is needed.

The macros are at least used in gpib_config.c.

References:
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-11/msg00253.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=130601
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=575232

[DaveP]

Thanks Andreas.

[Andreas Huettel]

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r1660 | dpenkler | 2017-09-01 19:33:05 +0300 (Fr, 01 Sep 2017) | 8 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/linux-gpib/configure.ac
M /trunk/linux-gpib/doc/linux-gpib.sgml
M /trunk/linux-gpib/drivers/gpib/lpvo_usb_gpib/lpvo_usb_gpib.c
M /trunk/linux-gpib/drivers/gpib/ni_usb/ni_usb_gpib.c
M /trunk/linux-gpib/drivers/gpib/ni_usb/ni_usb_gpib.h
M /trunk/linux-gpib/lib/gpib_config/gpib_config.c
M /trunk/linux-gpib/usb/ni_usb_gpib/99-ni_usb_gpib.rules.in
M /trunk/linux-gpib/usb/ni_usb_gpib/ni_usb_gpib

Commit for 4.0.4rc3
- Fix lpvo use of wait_queue_t
- Fix doc defines for IbaPPollTime & IbcPPollTime. Thanks Vince Vielhaber.
- Bumped version number to 4.0.4rc3
- Included patch to support NI GPIB-USB-HS+. Thanks Lukas Botsch.
- Updated doc to include NI GPIB-USB-HS+
- Added include of <sys sysmacros.h=""> in gpib_config.c for minor() definition.
</sys>

glibc-2.28 was released with sys/sysmacros.h removed from sys/types.h