[Buildroot] RPC support for modern (e)glibc toolchains

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Le Sat, 30 Jun 2012 14:24:51 +0200,
Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> a écrit :

>   However, given that this will only appear in BR-2012.08 at the earliest,
> and that the native RPC is on the way out anyway, maybe we can keep it
> even simpler and remove the BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_NATIVE_RPC option
> completely.  Just replace all 'depends on BR2_INET_RPC' with
> 'select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBTIRPC'.  The only users who are aversely affected
> by that are people using a pre-2.14 glibc toolchain, because now they'll
> get 100K of redundant library.  But I guess glibc users don't care much
> about a mere 100K of rootfs size.

Replacing "depends on BR2_INET_RPC" by "select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBTIRPC"
means that uClibc users will be forced to use libtirpc, while they
probably wanted to keep using the internal uClibc RPC code. I don't
think it's a good idea to do this.

Best regards,

Thomas
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