[Buildroot] [PATCH] Enable vlc to run as root

[Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>]

Dear Joao Pinto,

Regards,

Vincent.

On 09/15/2015 02:20 PM, jpinto wrote:
> A great number of embedded system only include the root user.

systems

> This patch has the goal of enabling vlc to be ran as root.
> 
> Signed-off-by: jpinto <jpinto@synopsys.com>
> Tested-by: jpinto <jpinto@synopsys.com>

Use your full name here.

> ---
>  package/vlc/vlc.mk | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/package/vlc/vlc.mk b/package/vlc/vlc.mk
> index 6f7fd58..4e84b12 100644
> --- a/package/vlc/vlc.mk
> +++ b/package/vlc/vlc.mk
> @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ VLC_CONF_OPTS += \
>  	--disable-mfx \
>  	--disable-vdpau \
>  	--disable-addonmanagermodules \
> +	--enable-run-as-root \

I don't know if running vlc as root is disabled by default due to
security reasons, but if so, perhaps we could do this selectable by the
user via menuconfig.

Also, there is a guy here [1] saying that although he configured it with
--enable-run-as-root, it still not working:

[1]
http://www.hackersgarage.com/vlc-is-not-supposed-to-be-run-as-root-sorry-solution.html

Have you done a runtime test to check that it actually works?

Regards,

Vincent.

>  
>  # Building static and shared doesn't work, so force static off.
>  ifeq ($(BR2_STATIC_LIBS),)
>