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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] c-icap: bump to version 0.4.2
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 10:06:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160420100600.7addc3de@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160420042834.GG2476@tarshish>

Hello,

On Wed, 20 Apr 2016 07:28:34 +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:

> configure.ac uses AC_TRY_RUN (inside AC_CACHE_CHECK) to test for 
> sem_init/sem_post and fcntl. The fourth AC_TRY_RUN parameter 
> (ACTION-IF-CROSS-COMPILING) of these tests gives this advice:
> 
>    [AC_MSG_ERROR([cross-compiling,
>         presetting ac_cv_10031b_ipc_sem=(yes|no) will help])]
>         )
>    ]
> 
>    [AC_MSG_ERROR([cross-compiling,
>         presetting ac_cv_fcntl=(yes|no) will help])]
>         )
>    ]

OK. I don't know why those tests are using AC_TRY_RUN(), but assuming
they really need to, then yes, pre-seeding the cache variables in the
only way.

> > Can you add a comment on top of this line that explains why those two
> > values need to be passed? Or at least, it should be explained in the
> > commit log (but a comment in the code is better IMO).
> 
> I'll add a comment.

Yes, just something like:

# Pre-seed cache variables for tests done with AC_TRY_RUN that are not
# cross-compile friendly

Thanks a lot!

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-20  8:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-19 18:15 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] c-icap: avoid host library search path Baruch Siach
2016-04-19 18:15 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] c-icap: bump to version 0.4.2 Baruch Siach
2016-04-19 19:16   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-04-20  4:28     ` Baruch Siach
2016-04-20  8:06       ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2016-04-19 18:15 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/3] c-icap-modules: " Baruch Siach
2016-04-19 19:14 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] c-icap: avoid host library search path Thomas Petazzoni
2016-04-20  4:31   ` Baruch Siach
2016-04-20 18:04   ` Baruch Siach
2016-04-20 19:20     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-04-20 19:37       ` Baruch Siach
2016-04-20 21:35     ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-04-21  6:58       ` Baruch Siach
2016-04-21 13:17         ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-04-19 21:53 ` Arnout Vandecappelle

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