[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] fswebcam: disable static build

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Apr 14 20:48:42 UTC 2014


Dear Baruch Siach,

On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 09:44:16 +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:
> fswebcam doesn't play nicely with static build as it doesn't track its
> indirect dependencies in link time. Fixing this requires tracking all indirect
> optional dependencies, which is tedious and error prone. Just disable static
> build.
> 
> This build failure didn't show on the autobuilder for some reason.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>
> ---
>  package/fswebcam/Config.in | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

Both applied. I would have preferred to fix static linking, but I agree
it's pretty unlikely that anyone will ever use such an application
statically linked and so it's probably not worth the effort.

Thanks,

Thomas
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