From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 15:15:15 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/mutt: specify the mailpath In-Reply-To: <1417258556-16797-1-git-send-email-yann.morin.1998@free.fr> References: <1417258556-16797-1-git-send-email-yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Message-ID: <20141130151515.3af7e775@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Yann E. MORIN, 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. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com