[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] socat: fix build failure due to ext2_fs.h header, bump version

[Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> writes:

 Thomas> In kernel >= 3.3, the ext2_fs.h can no longer be imported from
 Thomas> userspace. This has been fixed for internal toolchains by adding a
 Thomas> patch to kernel headers, but this doesn't work with toolchains
 Thomas> generated by Crosstool-NG, or potentially upcoming external
 Thomas> toolchains.

 Thomas> socat in fact has a test in its configure.in, but the configure was
 Thomas> generated too long ago, and the generated test relies on the
 Thomas> preprocessor result and not the compiler result (but warns that in the
 Thomas> future, the compiler result will be used instead of the preprocessor
 Thomas> result).

 Thomas> So, by running autoconf on this package, we fix the problem: it
 Thomas> properly checks whether ext2_fs is usable or not, and acts
 Thomas> accordingly. Of course, it means that with recent versions of the
 Thomas> kernel, ext2-specific features of socat are unavailable, and we'll
 Thomas> have to wait for the socat developers to adapt their code so that they
 Thomas> use the e2fsprogs headers.

 Thomas> We also bump the version, since a new minor version fixing a security
 Thomas> problem has been released.

Committed both, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard