[Buildroot] [PATCH] pcre: fix compile error for m68k coldfire
Waldemar Brodkorb
wbx at openadk.org
Fri Aug 19 21:24:56 UTC 2016
Hi Thomas,
Thomas Petazzoni wrote,
> So we have several options here:
>
> 1/ Mark pcre as not available for BR2_BINFMT_FLAT_SEP_DATA. But pcre
> has gazillions of reverse dependencies, and I expect the issue of
> -msep-data to show up on many many packages, as soon as they have a
> fairly large binary size.
>
> 2/ Actually fix up the problem, but I'm not sure it's even doable.
>
> 3/ Decide that we don't support BR2_BINFMT_FLAT_SEP_DATA at all on
> m68k. On master, BR2_BINFMT_FLAT_ONE was not available for m68k due
> to kernel issues, but they have been resolved, and
> BR2_BINFMT_FLAT_ONE is now enabled on m68k in the next branch. So I
> would suggest to also enable BR2_BINFMT_FLAT_ONE on m68k in master,
> disallow the selection of BR2_BINFMT_FLAT_SEP_DATA. If in the
> future someone is interested by -msep-data on m68k, this person can
> always restart the work and see how to fix the issues.
I vote for 3)
thanks for the nice summary,
Waldemar
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