[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] uclibc-ng: enable fts in default config file.

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:

 > Hello,
 > On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 17:15:51 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

 >> > Note that contrary to what Adam commit log says, the size increase is
 >> > 7.5 KB.  
 >> 
 >> Hmm, 7.5KB isn't much - But fts isn't enabled by default in uClibc-nc,
 >> it is a legacy BSD feature and it also isn't supported by musl.

 > Agreed.

 >> It is easy to enable uClibc options, but difficult to disable them again
 >> later (as users of the affected packages get caught).
 >> 
 >> Looking around, it seems we are only talking about 3 packages (if the
 >> annotations are correct):
 >> 
 >> git grep -l 'fts.h' **/Config.in
 >> package/libcgroup/Config.in
 >> package/libselinux/Config.in
 >> package/libsemanage/Config.in
 >> 
 >> Do we care enough for selinux users on uClibc (libcgroup seems to only
 >> be an optional dependency for gst1-rtsp-server) to let all other
 >> uClibc-ng users pay?

 > I would personally say no. The driving reason for Adam was to be able
 > to build the SELinux stuff. But indeed, if you're adding all the
 > SELinux overhead on your system, you most likely have the filesystem
 > space needed to switch to glibc.

 > So I'm fine if we decide to say "no". It should hopefully increase the
 > pressure on the upstream projects to move away from a legacy BSD
 > interface, and use the POSIX interface instead.

Ok, agreed. Adam, sorry but we prefer to keep things as they
are. It should be fairly easy for uClibc-ng users wanting to enable
selinux to notice that they need to change to glibc instead based on the
comment:

comment "libselinux needs a glibc toolchain w/ threads, dynamic library"

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard