[Buildroot] Depending on uClibc configuration variables

[Daniel Mack]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Le Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:26:22 +0200,
> Daniel Mack <zonque at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>> The thing is that I have been teaching new DNS lookup functions to
>> libuClibc which will be built depending on a new config variable
>> switch. The puropose for this is to make connman build in buildroot,
>> and I have it running here already. However, to prevent breakage, I
>> would like to depend on this new uClibc configuration directive, so
>> people can't select the new package unless they have a recent uClibc
>> with this new option selected. How would I do this?
>
> Either we decide that this option doesn't add too much overhead to
> uClibc, and we integrate it to the default uClibc configuration we
> ship. Or, we create yet another toolchain config knob that connman can
> depend on, and which would tune the uClibc configuration when enabled.
>
> What is the binary size impact of having your option enabled in uClibc ?

It adds ~5kb.

Daniel