From: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] Fix compilation of systemd with uclibc
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 18:43:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <524C4D27.9030601@mind.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131001144009.4117ea4c@skate>
On 10/01/13 14:40, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear J?r?me Pouiller,
>
> On Tue, 1 Oct 2013 13:38:12 +0200, J?r?me Pouiller wrote:
>> systemd-uclibc-fix.patch was applied to systemd to provide execvpe function
>> when compiled with uclibc. However, this function is now provided by
>> libc-add-non-standard-execvpe-function.patch in uclibc package.
>>
>> These two patchs are now in conflict. This commit remove
>> systemd/systemd-uclibc-fix.patch.
>
> The thing that worries me is that we start to rely on uClibc features
> that are provided by specific patches we have added to our uClibc
> package. This means that an user using an uClibc toolchain provided by
> Analog Devices for Blackfin, or built with Crosstool-NG will no longer
> work properly to build those packages.
>
> I'm not sure what to do about this, though. Mark those packages as
> available only with glibc or the internal uClibc toolchain? Stop
> backporting uClibc feature patches (like we do for other packages) and
> tell people to work with upstream uClibc to get things fixed and
> released?
We could make kconfig options for them and verify them in
$sysroot/include/bits/uClibc_config.h. Or, in the case of execvpe which
doesn't have a kconfig option, verify in $sysroot/include/unistd.h. But
it's adding a lot of complexity.
Regards,
Arnout
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-02 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-01 11:38 [Buildroot] [PATCH] Fix compilation of systemd with uclibc Jérôme Pouiller
2013-10-01 12:40 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-10-02 15:02 ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-10-02 15:12 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-10-02 16:43 ` Arnout Vandecappelle [this message]
2013-10-02 21:17 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-10-03 5:17 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-10-03 7:13 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-10-27 11:35 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-10-27 12:54 ` Eric Le Bihan
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