From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 09:54:04 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 5/6] cpanminus: requires host-qemu In-Reply-To: <20121113095008.68bb25a7@skate> References: <1352794248-15617-1-git-send-email-arnout@mind.be> <1352794248-15617-5-git-send-email-arnout@mind.be> <20121113095008.68bb25a7@skate> Message-ID: <50A20AAC.1070709@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 13/11/12 09:50, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Arnout, > > On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 09:10:47 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle > (Essensium/Mind) wrote: >> From: "Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)" >> >> Must also disable all non-supported architectures, including x86 >> (which doesn't have a working fork()). >> >> Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) >> --- >> It still only works half the time. For instance, in one arm configuration >> I have qemu sitting there consuming 100% CPU without any output, system >> calls, or nothing... > > From my point of view, cpanminus should be marked as broken, or even > removed unless another solution that qemu is found. The usage of > host-qemu simply doesn't work: if the kernel headers used for the > toolchain built by Buildroot are newer than the kernel version on the > build machine, it will break... so it really isn't a viable solution. Although I agree, I leave it to Peter to make the call - a removal patch is rather trivial. Until then, the patches are there in case he decides to keep cpanminus. Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286540 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F