[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/util-linux: remove patch for uClibc support

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sun Feb 21 17:20:09 UTC 2016


Hello,

On Sun, 21 Feb 2016 17:34:05 +0100, Romain Naour wrote:

> > Though it looks like this smartcols library also uses fork(), so it
> > anyway cannot work properly.
> > 
> > Romain, it seems like your patch is not completely correct, so I've
> > marked it as Rejected.
> 
> Ok no problem, I probably didn't selected the good util-linux option... my bad.

util-linux itself build fine. It's then if you try to link a program
with libsmartcols.

But on the other hand, libsmartcols uses fork(), which cannot be used
on no-MMU platforms... So the fact that libsmartcols uses mkostemp()
is maybe not that relevant.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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