https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94231
Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org changed:
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--- Comment #12 from Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org --- it's really not that difficult to test for & include the sys/sysmacros.h header directly when you're using the non-standard functions they provide. this is the API under BSD systems, and where Linux C libs have already moved/are moving towards. *this* is the deprecation period.
upstream glibc will take a more measured approach including updating their docs, but realistically, no one is going to read those until they see breakage. the Gentoo changes are only in an opt-in dev-only build, so it too isn't hitting people randomly.
as the upstream thread shows, if you used the (long time documented) AC_HEADER_MAJOR macro in autoconf, then this wouldn't have impacted drm.