[Buildroot] [PATCH] sane-backends: uses fork(), not available on noMMU systems

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Sat May 17 09:38:35 UTC 2014


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:

 > sane-backends currently doesn't build with the ADI external
 > toolchains, due to an internal compiler failure. However, using the
 > internal toolchain backend for Blackfin goes past this internal
 > compiler failure, but raises the problem that sane-backends uses
 > fork(). Sane-backends has a --enable-pthreads option that allows to
 > use threads instead of forking in some parts of sane, but there are
 > still some other areas of sane-backends that continue to use fork().

 > Since the probability of using sane-backends on a noMMU system is
 > fairly small, we'll just disable this package for now on such
 > architectures, until someone cares enough to investigate deeper.

 > Fixes:

 >   http://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/136/136100c3a2d843b7915fdd83d23d8b301fee577e/

 > Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>

Committed, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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