[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] berkeleydb: fix build on powerpc64le

Sam Bobroff sam.bobroff at au1.ibm.com
Fri Nov 4 03:52:22 UTC 2016


On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 09:41:11AM +0100, Luca Ceresoli wrote:
> 
> 
> On 03/11/2016 06:38, Sam Bobroff wrote:
> > Fixes
> > http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/964326466789f8d6ff8a064327c38cf145409ab0
> > 
> > The issue appears as a link failure in exim, where pthread symbols are
> > undefined (they are not even used by the binary that causes the first
> > failure). This is caused by libdb (used by exim) producing static
> > rather than shared libraries, and this is due to berkeleydb's
> > configure failing to correctly detect shared library support.
> > 
> > Add a case for powerpc64le to allow correct detection of shared library
> > support in the linker.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff at au1.ibm.com>
> > ---
> > 
> >  .../berkeleydb/0001-configure-powerpc64le.patch    | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 package/berkeleydb/0001-configure-powerpc64le.patch
> > 
> > diff --git a/package/berkeleydb/0001-configure-powerpc64le.patch b/package/berkeleydb/0001-configure-powerpc64le.patch
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..1f76562
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/package/berkeleydb/0001-configure-powerpc64le.patch
> > @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
> > +Currently, dist/configure on powerpc64le fails to determine the
> > +availability of shared library support in the toolchain, causing
> > +static libraries to be built even when shared libraries are supported.
> > +This can lead to linker failures in packages that use libdb.
> > +
> > +Add a case for powerpc64le which corrects the problem.
> > +
> > +Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff at au1.ibm.com>
> > +---
> > + dist/configure | 3 +++
> > + 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > +
> > +diff --git a/dist/configure b/dist/configure
> > +index db718de..81f2fae 100755
> > +--- a/dist/configure
> > ++++ b/dist/configure
> > +@@ -9330,6 +9330,9 @@ s390*-*linux*|s390*-*tpf*|sparc*-*linux*)
> > + 	  x86_64-*linux*)
> > + 	    LD="${LD-ld} -m elf_x86_64"
> > + 	    ;;
> > ++	  ppc64le-*linux*|powerpc64le-*linux*)
> > ++	    LD="${LD-ld} -m elf64lppc"
> > ++	    ;;
> > + 	  ppc*-*linux*|powerpc*-*linux*)
> > + 	    LD="${LD-ld} -m elf64ppc"
> > + 	    ;;
> 
> I tested this patch and it does fix the build failure.
> 
> However, the best way to fix the issue should be to fix configure.ac and
> then enable BERKELEYDB_AUTORECONF in berkeleydb.mk so the configure
> script gets regenerated. Can you have a look to that?

Ah, you're right of course but it's more complicated than just setting
AUTORECONF (which is why I didn't do it that way initially).

BerkeleyDB places their autotools files in a subdirectory (dist) so the
autoreconf rule fails:

>>> berkeleydb 5.3.28 Autoreconfiguring
autoreconf: 'configure.ac' or 'configure.in' is required

Even if you can get autoreconf to run, it doesn't work because it needs
an additional set of version symbols to be defined. It looks like it's
all handled by a script they include ("s_config"), and it appears to
work so I'll try a patch based on running that before configure.

Luckily, it appears the case block is already fixed upstream in libtool
(where the case statement eventually comes from) and buildroot's
libtool version already has the fix, so if we force regeneration it
fixes the bug without having to add a patch at all :-)

I'm slightly concerned that because the change will cause a regeneration
on all arches, and might break them but I suppose if it does then it's
just exposing real bugs that should be fixed.

(And the upstream fix would just be to update their autoconf files.)

Does this sound OK?

Cheers,
Sam.




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