[Buildroot] Analysis of build failures

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Jul 28 14:02:11 UTC 2015


Gustavo,

On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 10:56:12 -0300, Gustavo Zacarias wrote:

> The minimum required headers for iproute2 are 3.0, below that (2.6.39) 
> it fails with namespaces. BPF is probably failing before ns because it's 
> even older.
> So it's probably time to exclude iproute2 for very old toolchains, but 
> unfortunately openswan & ifupdown (not that important) will suffer from it.
> It's possible openswan can work with busybox ip tools, i haven't tested 
> that scenario, and unfortuantely (again) it's one of those packages that 
> aren't so easy to test.

I am fine with the solution of having those packages use a >= 3.0
kernel headers dependency.

If someone wants openswan with the Busybox IP tools, they can
contribute :-)

Thomas
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Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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