From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 15:25:51 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/mutt: specify the mailpath In-Reply-To: <20141130151515.3af7e775@free-electrons.com> References: <1417258556-16797-1-git-send-email-yann.morin.1998@free.fr> <20141130151515.3af7e775@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20141130142551.GE4124@free.fr> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Thomas, All, On 2014-11-30 15:15 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 11:55:56 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > > mutt's ./configure looks for different paths for where to look for > > incoming mails. > > > > This is absolutely worng in the case of cross-compilation, because the > > path it may find on the host may not exist on the target. > > > > Not only that, but some host may not even have any of the paths > > ./configure looks for. > > > > Fix that by specifying the mailpath, and set it to the value documented > > in the FHS [0] > > > > Since Buildroot only guarantees /tmp to be writable, make /var/mail a > > symlink to /tmp . > > > > [0] http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_2.3/fhs-2.3.html#VARMAILUSERMAILBOXFILES > > > > Reported-by: Vicente Olivert Riera > > Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" > > --- > > package/mutt/mutt.mk | 7 +++++++ > > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) > > At this point, I'm not sure if this is still material for master > (2014.11) or for next. I don;'t realy care either. It fixes a relatively rare occurence of a build failure, which happens only in very tightly controlled systems, and we have had only one report of it since we've been packaging mutt (that is, the past 7 years!), so I think it can well go in -next. Regards, Yann E. MORIN. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'