[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/1] icu: detect and add compiler symbol prefix to the assembly code
Peter Korsgaard
jacmet at uclibc.org
Thu Feb 20 07:49:31 UTC 2014
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:
> Dear Peter Korsgaard,
> On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 23:50:01 +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>> We recently added this patch to icu for bfin symbol prefix, but from
>> todays autobuilder I see that icu's configure script completely doesn't
>> support uclinux (E.G. bfin):
>>
>> http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/d11/d118b4f753ade63201758e1b14ca54d96ec77698/build-end.log
>>
>> What's going on here? Should I revert this patch and instead mark icu as
>> unavailable on bfin?
> No. I believe icu support bfin-linux-uclibc (i.e FDPIC), but not
> bfin-uclinux. I've modified icu so that it accepts bfin-uclinux as
> well, but apparently icu generates an ELF file by itself (!), and puts
> it in an .a archive. Which of course is not really to the taste of the
> FLAT format ld used on bfin-uclinux.
Ahh yes, I missed the different bfin variants.
> I'm trying to figure out if icu can be convinced to generate source
> code instead and compile it, but the icu source code is weird, to say
> the least.
> So I believe I will send a patch that disables ICU when !BR2_BINFMT_ELF.
Ok, thanks.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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