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diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/tep_strerror.c b/tools/lib/traceevent/tep_strerror.c
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+++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/tep_strerror.c
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+// SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1
+#undef _GNU_SOURCE
+#include <string.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+#include "event-parse.h"
+
+#undef _PE
+#define _PE(code, str) str
+static const char * const tep_error_str[] = {
+	TEP_ERRORS
+};
+#undef _PE
+
+/*
+ * The tools so far have been using the strerror_r() GNU variant, that returns
+ * a string, be it the buffer passed or something else.
+ *
+ * But that, besides being tricky in cases where we expect that the function
+ * using strerror_r() returns the error formatted in a provided buffer (we have
+ * to check if it returned something else and copy that instead), breaks the
+ * build on systems not using glibc, like Alpine Linux, where musl libc is
+ * used.
+ *
+ * So, introduce yet another wrapper, str_error_r(), that has the GNU
+ * interface, but uses the portable XSI variant of strerror_r(), so that users
+ * rest asured that the provided buffer is used and it is what is returned.
+ */
+int tep_strerror(struct tep_handle *tep __maybe_unused,
+		 enum tep_errno errnum, char *buf, size_t buflen)
+{
+	const char *msg;
+	int idx;
+
+	if (!buflen)
+		return 0;
+
+	if (errnum >= 0) {
+		int err = strerror_r(errnum, buf, buflen);
+		buf[buflen - 1] = 0;
+		return err;
+	}
+
+	if (errnum <= __TEP_ERRNO__START ||
+	    errnum >= __TEP_ERRNO__END)
+		return -1;
+
+	idx = errnum - __TEP_ERRNO__START - 1;
+	msg = tep_error_str[idx];
+	snprintf(buf, buflen, "%s", msg);
+
+	return 0;
+}