[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/6] package/pseudo: enforce the host bitness

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Tue Nov 8 17:29:12 UTC 2016


Arnout, All,

On 2016-11-07 23:16 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> 
> 
> On 07-11-16 22:23, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > pseudo can detect the host bitness, but is not sure about it: it checks
> > what type of file /bin/sh is, using file(1).
> > 
> > However, in some conditions, /bin/sh can be of a different bitness than
> > the rest of the system (weird, but not impossible), which causes build
> > issues.
> > 
> > Just enforce the bitness, so that pseudo needs not (wrongly) guess it.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> > Cc: Gaël PORTAY <gael.portay at savoirfairelinux.com>
> > Cc: Patrick Keroulas <patrick.keroulas at savoirfairelinux.com>
> > Cc: Erico Nunes <nunes.erico at gmail.com>
> > Cc: Julien BOIBESSOT <julien.boibessot at free.fr>
> > ---
> >  package/pseudo/pseudo.mk | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/package/pseudo/pseudo.mk b/package/pseudo/pseudo.mk
> > index 67538a6..3b0ba86 100644
> > --- a/package/pseudo/pseudo.mk
> > +++ b/package/pseudo/pseudo.mk
> > @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ HOST_PSEUDO_DEPENDENCIES = host-attr host-sqlite
> >  # configure script is not generated by autoconf, so passing --libdir
> >  # is necessary, even if the infrastructure passes --prefix already.
> >  HOST_PSEUDO_CONF_OPTS = \
> > +	--bits=$(HOSTARCH_BITS) \
> 
>  I would be just as happy with
> 	--bits=$(if $(filter %64,$(HOSTARCH)),32,64)

Yep, that's nice. Except it's reversed, isn't it? I.e. if we find '64'
in HOSTARCH, then we want to use '64', not '32', right? So:

    --bits=$(if $(filter %64,$(HOSTARCH)),64,32)

(Unless I missed something...)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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