[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/putty: disable for uClibc

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Mon Mar 25 21:36:09 UTC 2019



On 25/03/2019 22:08, Baruch Siach wrote:
> putty now uses the futimes() BSD extension that uClibc does not
> implement.
> 
> Fixes:
> http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/801/801e2b2909363b5dcd9735362bb921e017569edc/
> http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/398/3984c6cdd3398645c8ad98bbe23af9090cf4bfcf/
> http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/632/632f93046f9cceffd9b604911542426c10967e0f/

 Although it's true that it also eventually fails to link due to futimes(), the
actual errors in the autobuilders are about POLLRDNORM and POLLRDBAND, which
require _XOPEN_SOURCE to be set.

 This is quite heavy fallout for something marked as "security bump"...

 Regards,
 Arnout

> 
> Cc: Alexander Dahl <post at lespocky.de>
> Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>
> ---
>  package/putty/Config.in | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/package/putty/Config.in b/package/putty/Config.in
> index f901c71da297..065a7152f705 100644
> --- a/package/putty/Config.in
> +++ b/package/putty/Config.in
> @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_PUTTY
>  	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # fork()
>  	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR
>  	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS
> +	depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_UCLIBC # futimes
>  	help
>  	  PuTTY is a free SSH and Telnet client. Without GTK2
>  	  activated, only the commandline tools plink, pscp, psftp,
> @@ -11,6 +12,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_PUTTY
>  
>  	  http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
>  
> -comment "putty needs a toolchain w/ wchar, dynamic library"
> +comment "putty needs a glibc or musl toolchain w/ wchar, dynamic library"
>  	depends on BR2_USE_MMU
> -	depends on !BR2_USE_WCHAR || BR2_STATIC_LIBS
> +	depends on !BR2_USE_WCHAR || BR2_STATIC_LIBS || \
> +		BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_UCLIBC
> 



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