From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 21:35:49 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/1] package/avahi: add optional support for libcap In-Reply-To: <1456077439-26606-1-git-send-email-bernd.kuhls@t-online.de> References: <1456077439-26606-1-git-send-email-bernd.kuhls@t-online.de> Message-ID: <20160221213549.5767bca8@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 Bernd Kuhls, On Sun, 21 Feb 2016 18:57:19 +0100, Bernd Kuhls wrote: > When libcap was compiled before, avahi daemon will use it as optional > dependency: > > $ output/host/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-readelf -a output/target/usr/sbin/avahi-daemon | grep NEEDED | sort > 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libavahi-common.so.3] > 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libavahi-core.so.7] > 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libcap.so.2] > [...] > > The build system offers no option to en-/disable libcap support: > http://git.0pointer.net/avahi.git/tree/configure.ac#n382 > > The check for libcap was placed inside the BR2_PACKAGE_AVAHI_DAEMON > because only avahi-daemon uses libcap, it provides chroot support. Still, the configure.ac test is done unconditionally (i.e regardless of whether the daemon is enabled or not), so I believe we should also do the same. Peter, Yann, Arnout, your thoughts? Thanks, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com