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

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu May 17 13:34:12 UTC 2012


Le Thu, 17 May 2012 13:15:57 +0200,
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> a écrit :

> In kernel >= 3.3, the ext2_fs.h can no longer be imported from
> userspace. This has been fixed for internal toolchains by adding a
> patch to kernel headers, but this doesn't work with toolchains
> generated by Crosstool-NG, or potentially upcoming external
> toolchains.
> 
> socat in fact has a test in its configure.in, but the configure was
> generated too long ago, and the generated test relies on the
> preprocessor result and not the compiler result (but warns that in the
> future, the compiler result will be used instead of the preprocessor
> result).
> 
> So, by running autoconf on this package, we fix the problem: it
> properly checks whether ext2_fs is usable or not, and acts
> accordingly. Of course, it means that with recent versions of the
> kernel, ext2-specific features of socat are unavailable, and we'll
> have to wait for the socat developers to adapt their code so that they
> use the e2fsprogs headers.

Forgot to say so in the commit log, but this fixes:
 http://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/fb8f118d0051d01f41cdc50a90df05f9d648e433/build-end.log

Thomas
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