[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/strace: disable mpers support

[Baruch Siach]

Hi Yann

On Tue, Sep 08 2020, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> On 2020-09-08 08:54 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
>> On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 00:56:55 +0200
>> "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> wrote:
> [--SNIP--]
>> > However, some systems may very well run a 64-bit kernel with a 32-bit
>> > userland. In that case, strace should be able to interpret the syscalls
>> > made by the process and the replies sent by the kernel, and those are
>> > done in the bitness of the process, not of the kernel.
>> > 
>> > So, we always want an strace that is of the same bitness as the
>> > userland. And so I indeed think we do not need this ill-named
>> > multi-personality support of strace.
>> > 
>> > Note that some people may however run such multi-bitness systems. But in
>> > that case, they had to build two userlands, a 32-bit one and a 64-bit
>> > one, and somehow aggregate the two after the fact. In that case, they
>> > would bear the responsibility to carry an strace for each bitness.
>> 
>> So, is this an Acked-by for this patch ? :-)
>
> It would, but I'd still like to have some feedback from Baruch, who had
> initial added of the mpers option, so may have further explanations to
> provide.

I only touched mpers (commit fc0d31caeedba) to fix build failure I
(re)introduced in a previous commit (10883729419). strace enables mpers
by default. I am fine with removing mpers support entirely.

baruch

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