[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] openssl: support building the binary without MMU

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 06/21/15 06:45, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Beno?t Th?baudeau,
> 
> On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:54:33 +0200, Beno?t Th?baudeau wrote:
>> The commit 720893b62510438237b9923d744dd079ddb4f67d "openssl: disable
>> apps for NOMMU" prevented the openssl binary from being built without
>> MMU in order to fix a build failure without fork(). However, openssl is
>> designed to support the lack of fork() with -DHAVE_FORK=0, so allow the
>> openssl binary to be enabled without MMU thanks to this option.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Beno?t Th?baudeau <benoit@wsystem.com>
> 
> Hum. But then it means that we have propagated the MMU dependency to
> all reverse dependencies of openssl (i.e packages that depend on
> openssl), but they may no longer need this dependency anymore.

 This is only about BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL_BIN, which is not selected by any package.


 Regards,
 Arnout

> 
> There is a fairly huge list of packages that "select
> BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL". How can we find out which ones will now build
> fine without MMU support ?
> 
> By the way, do you have a specific need for openssl on no-MMU
> platforms? If so, on which platform? We don't have many no-MMU users,
> so it's good when they speak up :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Thomas
> 


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