Robert P. J. DAY says:
According to Mike Frysinger, this patch was removed from Gentoo in the
2.3.x series and didn't seem to cause any adverse effects. So toss it
from the patch directories for glibc 2.5 and up.
1 Make psignal prototype in libiberty match that in glibc.
5 gcc-2.95.3-glibc-2.1.3/binutils-2.15/libiberty/strsignal.c: In function `psignal':
6 gcc-2.95.3-glibc-2.1.3/binutils-2.15/libiberty/strsignal.c:563: argument `signo' doesn't match prototype
7 /usr/include/signal.h:131: prototype declaration
8 gcc-2.95.3-glibc-2.1.3/binutils-2.15/libiberty/strsignal.c:563: argument `message' doesn't match prototype
9 /usr/include/signal.h:131: prototype declaration
10 gcc-2.95.3-glibc-2.1.3/binutils-2.15/libiberty/strsignal.c:568: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned
11 mprotect... make[1]: *** [strsignal.o] Error 1
12 make[1]: Leaving directory `/export/hda3/dkegel/queue/jobdir.produser_cpsm17/crosstool-0.32/build/i686-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-2.95.3-glibc-2.1.3/build-binutils/libiberty'
13 make: *** [all-libiberty] Error 2
15 when building on red hat 7.1
16 though it's a bit of a mystery why libiberty's psignal is being compiled at
17 all, since red hat 7.1's glibc supports psignal (hence the error message)
19 --- binutils-2.17/libiberty/strsignal.c.old 2005-04-18 13:57:40.000000000 -0700
20 +++ binutils-2.17/libiberty/strsignal.c 2005-04-18 13:59:09.000000000 -0700
25 -@deftypefn Supplemental void psignal (unsigned @var{signo}, char *@var{message})
26 +@deftypefn Supplemental void psignal (int @var{signo}, const char *@var{message})
28 Print @var{message} to the standard error, followed by a colon,
29 followed by the description of the signal specified by @var{signo},