[Buildroot] Insufficient RPC options for crosstool-ng toolchain

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Shawn J. Goff,

On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:36:36 -0500, Shawn J. Goff wrote:
> I'm getting an error about a missing rpc_msg.h while building 
> conntrack-tools. That package selects libtirpc if 
> !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_NATIVE_RPC. I'm having BR build the toolchain using 
> ct-ng; I looked at the  toolchain-crosstool-ng/Config.in and it selects 
> BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_NATIVE_RPC because the ct-ng config that ships with BR 
> uses glibc 2.9. My ct-ng config uses glibc 2.14, which doesn't have 
> native RPC support.

Correct.

> I started to make a patch that allows for explicitly selecting 
> BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_NATIVE_RPC like the external-toolchain allows,

Seems like the good solution yes.

> but I 
> ran across check_glibc function and the ext-toolchain-checked stamp and 
> it looks like quite a lot, so I wanted to find out if you actually want 
> all that for this fix.

What problems did you encounter exactly? It should be fairly similar to
what we do for external toolchains I believe, no?

Thanks,

Thomas
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