[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] python-psutil: fix build against musl C library

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Sep 20 11:30:53 UTC 2016


Hello,

On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 12:30:03 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

>  > This is not really the solution recommended by the musl developers.
>  > Instead, the musl developers would suggest to *not* include
>  > <linux/sysinfo.h> at all, and instead duplicate the relevant
>  > definitions in the userspace program.  
> 
> Yes, I know it is a hack (as mentioned in the description). The problem
> is that the code DOESN'T include linux/sysinfo.h, but it gets indirectly
> included from linux/ethtool.h -> linux/kernel.h -> linux/sysinfo.h.
> 
> Do you have any suggestion how to fix this in a cleaner way?

The answer of the musl developers would be: don't include
<linux/ethtool.h> in the first place.

Thomas
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