[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/glibc: drop dependency of utilities on bash

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>]

Hello Carlos,

On Sun, 8 Dec 2019 22:38:52 -0300
Carlos Santos <unixmania@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm working on a patch series to glibc but it requires ATORECONF,
> which fails because GLIBC_SUBDIR is set to "build" and there
> configure.ac is not there. I circumvented the problem by using
> 
> define GLIBC_AUTORECONF
>         cd $(@D) && $(AUTORECONF) || true
> endef
> 
> GLIBC_PRE_CONFIGURE_HOOKS = GLIBC_AUTORECONF
> 
> The "|| true" there is a kludge to ignore this error:
> 
> Use of uninitialized value $args[0] in split at
> /work/qemu_x86_64_glibc_eudev/host/bin/autoreconf line 493, <GEN2>

Hum, OK. Perhaps another way is to simply have your patch make its way
upstream, and wait until the next glibc release to really use it in
Buildroot. In the mean time, we can keep the post patch hook that you
have implemented and that was merged in Buildroot.

What is important is that at some point in the future, there will be an
upstream solution. We don't necessarily need to use it immediately in
Buildroot.

Best regards,

Thomas
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