From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@gmail.com>
Cc: buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/1] package/strace: use bundled headers
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:29:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <atnzfzaDFOtqR5Oz@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230713075740.328213-1-james.hilliard1@gmail.com>
On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 01:57:40AM -0600, James Hilliard wrote:
> There is a bug in the configure script, while we could apply the
> upstream patching fixing this bug the better solution is to switch
> to using the bundled headers instead.
>
> The reason for this is that strace needs the headers of the running
> kernel rather than those that were used to build the toolchain.
>
> The running kernel is often more recent than the one used in the
> toolchain so we do want to use the more up-to-date headers.
>
> As such we should use the strace bundled headers as they will be
> the most up-to-date headers.
>
> Details: https://github.com/strace/strace/issues/253
>
> Fixes:
> - http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/867/8675aeca53653d9d792182be61a28ea550dc530d
>
> Signed-off-by: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@gmail.com>
As reported in the discussion, the root issue was fixed in strace 6.4,
to which we updated a long time ago, so I believe this change is no
longer needed. I'll mark this patch as Rejected in patchwork.
Best regards,
Thomas Petazzoni
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Thomas Petazzoni, co-owner and CEO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training
https://bootlin.com
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-13 7:57 [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/1] package/strace: use bundled headers James Hilliard
2023-07-13 20:11 ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot
2023-07-13 20:40 ` Maxim Kochetkov via buildroot
2023-07-13 21:33 ` James Hilliard
2026-10-22 11:29 ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot [this message]
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