[Buildroot] [PATCH] autofs: use libtirpc instead of internal C implementation
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sun Mar 26 09:22:24 UTC 2017
All,
On 2017-03-23 22:53 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> On 22-03-17 08:59, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 03:09:46 +0100, Waldemar Brodkorb wrote:
> >
> >>> On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 20:32:13 +0100, Waldemar Brodkorb wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> @@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_AUTOFS
> >>>> bool "autofs"
> >>>> depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS_NPTL
> >>>> depends on BR2_USE_MMU
> >>>> - depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_NATIVE_RPC
> >>>> depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS # dlfcn
> >>>> + select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBTIRPC
> >>>
> >>> Why should we force people to use libtirpc ?
> >>
> >> Because the internal RPC implementation is mostly useless and
> >> getting removed?
> >
> > I don't quite agree. The one in glibc has been used for years
> > successfully, and is still useful. So even if uClibc decides to remove
> > its internal RPC implementation, I'd like to give people the option to
> > use the internal RPC implementation of glibc.
> >
> > I agree RPC support in glibc will most likely disappear at some point
> > in the future, but we're not there yet. So for now, I'd prefer if we
> > just took the step of dropping RPC support in uClibc, and doing the
> > necessary changes in packages so that they all build/work fine with
> > libtirpc. That's anyway a very good preparation step to get rid of
> > internal RPC support entirely at some point in the future.
>
> Well, if glibc is the only one that is still going to provide native RPC, I
> really don't think it's worth keeping support for it. It's not as if the 125KB
> extra from libtirpc are really going to hurt someone who is using glibc, right?
> And keeping the option of native RPC or libtirpc is probably going to make the
> code more complicated.
>
> So I tend to agree with Waldemar's approach.
I would say that I agree with Waldemar and Arnout.
Especially since the internal RPC implementation in glibc is not even
complete (not IPv6-clean for example) so it really makes sense to switch
to libtirpc which is nowadays pretty much stable.
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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