[Buildroot] [PATCH] host-mkpasswd: fix crash on Fedora 28 build host

Stefan Becker chemobejk at gmail.com
Tue May 29 06:43:49 UTC 2018


Yann, All,

On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 11:04 PM Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
wrote:

> Stefan, All,

> Although in the long run, I believe it might be preferrable that we
> ditch our own bundled version, and switch to making our whois package a
> hot pacakge, and use that as the provider for mkpasswd.

> Stefan, would you want to do that? ;-)

I poked around in package/whois this morning to add host-whois. IMHO that
package is not much of an improvement over package/mkpasswd. Everything is
hard-coded there too, i.e. the build does not detect if the build host
needs crypt.h/-lcrypt or not.

Just my $0.02,

Stefan



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