From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 09:50:08 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 5/6] cpanminus: requires host-qemu In-Reply-To: <1352794248-15617-5-git-send-email-arnout@mind.be> References: <1352794248-15617-1-git-send-email-arnout@mind.be> <1352794248-15617-5-git-send-email-arnout@mind.be> Message-ID: <20121113095008.68bb25a7@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Arnout, On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 09:10:47 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) wrote: > From: "Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)" > > Must also disable all non-supported architectures, including x86 > (which doesn't have a working fork()). > > Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) > --- > It still only works half the time. For instance, in one arm configuration > I have qemu sitting there consuming 100% CPU without any output, system > calls, or nothing... >From my point of view, cpanminus should be marked as broken, or even removed unless another solution that qemu is found. The usage of host-qemu simply doesn't work: if the kernel headers used for the toolchain built by Buildroot are newer than the kernel version on the build machine, it will break... so it really isn't a viable solution. Thanks, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com