[Buildroot] [PATCH] Fix compilation of systemd with uclibc

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Oct 2 15:12:47 UTC 2013


Dear Peter Korsgaard,

On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 17:02:22 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

>  Thomas> The thing that worries me is that we start to rely on uClibc
>  Thomas> features that are provided by specific patches we have added to
>  Thomas> our uClibc package. This means that an user using an uClibc
>  Thomas> toolchain provided by Analog Devices for Blackfin, or built
>  Thomas> with Crosstool-NG will no longer work properly to build those
>  Thomas> packages.
> 
> As uClibc is configurable, this can never be 100% safe, but I agree we
> should try to keep these things to a minimum.

Right, but making the assumption that uClibc provides a feature that
isn't available in the latest uClibc release doesn't seem like a
reasonable compromise in terms of external uClibc toolchain support.

Thomas
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