[Buildroot] Analysis of build results for 2017-03-04

[Waldemar Brodkorb <wbx@openadk.org>]

Hi Thomas,
Thomas Petazzoni wrote,

> Hello,
> 
> /home/test/autobuild/run/instance-2/output/host/usr/arc-buildroot-linux-uclibc/sysroot/usr/lib/libintl.a(loadmsgcat.o): In function `_nl_load_domain':
> loadmsgcat.c:(.text+0x36): undefined reference to `pthread_mutex_lock'
> loadmsgcat.c:(.text+0xfc): undefined reference to `pthread_mutex_unlock'
> 
> That's the usual deal of libintl using pthread functions, which causes
> issues in static linking scenarios. There was this story that glibc
> provides dummy pthread functions in libc, and the real ones in
> libpthread, so that if you don't link with pthread, you don't use the
> slow thread-aware versions.
> 
> But since static linking is only with musl/uclibc anyway, and they now
> all use a single-library approach that doesn't matter. I guess this
> error still occurs because the ARC pre-built toolchain uses a uClibc
> version that predates the merge-them-all-into-libc change.
> 
> Waldemar, do you confirm ?

Yes, I hope they finally update to latest, soon :/
Don't know if they have a reason to build with the last
non-merge-them-all-into-libc change.
 
best regards
 Waldemar