Re: [PATCH 0/7] systemd-211 upgrade and uclibc fixes

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, 2014-03-17 at 09:06 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 4:31 AM, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2014-03-15 at 22:42 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> >> Finally, managed to get systemd 211 to boot on uclibc and eglibc
> >> on all supported qemu machines, this should fix bug #5940
> >>
> >> Additional functionality in uclibc is needed to support this
> >> systemd
> >>
> >> gnutls, glib-2.0, intltool fixes are uclibc specific and are needed
> >> to get uclibc images going
> >>
> >> util-linux fix is moulded to support uclibc
> >>
> >> I have been testing this fix on the qemuarm/qemuppc/qemumips/qemux86/qemux86-64
> >> on both uclibc/eglibc images and its been working good.
> >>
> >> The following changes since commit 58aae40bbf8edd9c5ca70b2094eeb724391f1993:
> >>
> >>   eglibc: Update SRC_URI to point to final download location (2014-03-13 20:44:48 -0700)
> >>
> >> are available in the git repository at:
> >>
> >>   git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core-contrib kraj/systemd-211
> >>   http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded-core-contrib/log/?h=kraj/systemd-211
> >>
> >> Khem Raj (7):
> >>   uclibc: Implement clock_adjtime()
> >>   uclibc: Remove iconv.h
> >>   gnutls: Link in pthread explicitly for uclibc
> >>   glib-2.0: Fix localedir expectations for uclibc
> >>   util-linux: scanf_cv_alloc_modifier changed from 'as' -> 'ms'
> >>   intltool: Define DATADIRNAME=share for uclibc based systems
> >>   Upgrade to systemd 211+
> >
> > I tried this on the autobuilder, with and without the pulseaudio 4->5
> > upgrade. The result was:
> >
> > http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/main/builders/nightly-qa-systemd/builds/111
> > http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/main/builders/nightly-qa-systemd/builds/112
> >
> > so I'm afraid I can't take the systemd part of this series. Its getting
> > late in the cycle for a pulseaudio 4->5 upgrade too :/
> 
> I was fighting with runtime issues than the build time so I was
> building minimal images for quick debug/test cycles.
> my bad since I kept pulseaudio out of this pull request the systemd
> patch that Martin had
> was also left out.
> 
> 
> >
> > Does anyone have any strong opinions on this?
> 
> Give it a shot, if you can otherwise it can wait, 208 still shows
> issues with journald where journal
> sometimes misses chunks of logs of chatty daemons for an interval of
> time after few hours of running, I haven't seen this issue with 211
> yet so this is an improvement.
> however 208 will keep getting fixes it probably isnt a bad choice to
> stick with for this release.

FWIW Martin's patch showed a green build. I'm therefore more widely
testing that combination.

Cheers,

Richard