Re: busybox-static linking failed

[Steffen Sledz <sledz@dresearch.de>]

On 10/29/2009 11:29 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
>> After a long time i tried to build an initramfs image containing
>> busybox-static which fails to link (besides some warnings) with these
>> errors:
>>
>> /home/OE/tmp.3/work/armv5te-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/busybox-static-1.11.3-r22.1/busybox-1.11.3/networking/libiproute/iptunnel.c:189:
>> undefined reference to `__cpu_to_be16'
>> /home/OE/tmp.3/work/armv5te-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/busybox-static-1.11.3-r22.1/busybox-1.11.3/networking/libiproute/iptunnel.c:190:
>> undefined reference to `__cpu_to_be16'
>> /home/OE/tmp.3/work/armv5te-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/busybox-static-1.11.3-r22.1/busybox-1.11.3/networking/libiproute/iptunnel.c:202:
>> undefined reference to `__cpu_to_be16'
>> /home/OE/tmp.3/work/armv5te-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/busybox-static-1.11.3-r22.1/busybox-1.11.3/networking/libiproute/iptunnel.c:214:
>> undefined reference to `__cpu_to_be16'
>> /home/OE/tmp.3/work/armv5te-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/busybox-static-1.11.3-r22.1/busybox-1.11.3/networking/libiproute/iptunnel.c:224:
>> undefined reference to `__cpu_to_be16'
>> networking/libiproute/lib.a(iptunnel.o):/home/OE/tmp.3/work/armv5te-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/busybox-static-1.11.3-r22.1/busybox-1.11.3/networking/libiproute/iptunnel.c:225:
>> more undefined references to `__cpu_to_be16' follow
>>
>> This is really obscure for me because i can't identify the code lines
>> responsible for them. :(
> 
> you need this kernel patch here
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/18/223

This fixes the missing include inside the kernel. My patch suggestion
adds the missing include inside busybox. I would prefer the kernel
patch. Any objections?

Steffen