[Buildroot] [PATCH] glibc: install the obsolete libnsl

Baruch Siach baruch at tkos.co.il
Sun Apr 29 04:26:56 UTC 2018


Hi Romain,

On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 04:51:39PM +0200, Romain Naour wrote:
> Le 13/03/2018 à 16:59, Baruch Siach a écrit :
> > glibc 2.27 stopped installing libnsl by default. Restore libnsl install
> > to fix packages, like exim, that use that library.
> 
> Do you know if libnsl can be disabled from exim ?

Of course. We already do that for non-glibc targets. See 
EXIM_REMOVE_LIBNSL_FROM_MAKEFILE in exim.mk.

> Is exim is the only remaining program still using/supporting libnsl ?

I don't know.

> libnsl from Glibc doesn't build with the upcoming gcc 8, it's not even build
> tested by Glibc maintainers (build-many-glibcs.py test script) see [1].
> 
> Maybe we can provide libnsl from a package that provide an updated version of
> this library [2]?
> 
> Can you have a look?

The simplest solution would be to disable libnsl in exim unconditionally, 
remove libnsl support in glibc, and deal with any other libnsl users as we 
encounter them.

baruch

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