[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/4] nfs-utils: add host package

[Baruch Siach]

Hi Thomas,

On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 12:44:12PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> On Fri, 18 May 2018 14:31:56 +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:
> > We only need the host package for the rpcgen utility. glibc deprecated
> > this utility in version 2.26. Fedora has recently removed rpcgen from
> > its glibc package. So we need to build the rpcgen from the nfs-utils
> > package.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>
> 
> I've done some testing. First, this package needs host-pkgconf in
> HOST_NFS_UTILS_DEPENDENCIES, because the configure.ac script uses
> autoconf macros from pkgconfig.m4. With this fixed, host-nfs-utils
> builds fine on my system (Fedora 27).
> 
> However, it doesn't build on Fedora 28, because the <rpc/types.h>
> header is not available. If this one gets fixed by using a local copy
> of <rpc/types.h>, then the build fails for <rpc/rpc.h>, etc.
> 
> So in fact on Fedora 28, not only rpcgen is not provided, but also the
> RPC headers are not provided.
> 
> Do you have an idea on how to address this ? Do we need to build
> host-libtirpc ?

I'll take a look.

If we need host-libtirpc we would not be able to remove the rpcgen patch since 
that would create a circular dependency.

Why do we actually need rpcgen in libtirpc?

> If you don't have a Fedora 28 system at hand, you can easily create a
> Docker container with Fedora 28 installed.

Thanks for the tip.

baruch

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