[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] python-psutil: fix build against musl C library
Peter Korsgaard
peter at korsgaard.com
Tue Sep 20 13:04:12 UTC 2016
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:
Hi,
>> I don't see the point of that reasoning - The whole idea of the Linux
>> uapi headers is to provide headers for the kernel API.
> Correct. I've already discussed this with the musl developers, and they
> say that the "kernel headers are not clean to be used in userspace".
> Of course, everyone else but the musl people are using the uapi headers
> in userspace, but apparently, there are some things in there that do
> not please the musl people.
> Maybe Rich can explain more precisely the issue. So far I've only been
> able to get "kernel headers are not clean enough", but not concrete
> example of the problem.
Rich, can you explain please?
>> I'm not particulary interested in musl support for
>> python-psutil. Alternatively we can just mark it as
>> !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_MUSL.
>>
>> What do you suggest?
> I don't care about python-psutil to be available with musl, so your
> proposal is fine to me. Overall, I find the policy of musl developers
> to be very annoying as:
> 1/ It breaks many many many packages.
> 2/ The only proposed solution is to duplicate code, which is not nice
> at all, and is difficult to get accepted by upstream project,
> living us with zillions of musl-related patches that we cannot
> upstream.
Agreed. I've send a patch to mark it (and its reverse dependencies) as
unavailable on musl.
--
Venlig hilsen,
Peter Korsgaard
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