[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/nginx: override endianness

Nevo Hed nhed+buildroot at starry.com
Mon Aug 30 20:53:57 UTC 2021


Though several patches exist in buildroot's nginx package dir they do
not seem to address endianness.

The test program generated my the script compiles but fails to run (as
it is built for another architecture) but the script does not
distinguish between the failure to run the program and an indication
of certain endianness.  As such the fallback of big-endian is used.
This setting then causes http2 headers (anything not in the satic
dictionary) to come out as undecipherble trash.

This commit includes a patch to the configure script to allow a
`--force-endianness=big|little` flag as as setting that flag in
buildroot's package makefile.

Signed-off-by: Nevo Hed <nhed+buildroot at starry.com>
---
 ...-of-endianness-for-cross-compilation.patch | 115 ++++++++++++++++++
 package/nginx/nginx.mk                        |   1 +
 2 files changed, 116 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 package/nginx/0010-Allow-forcing-of-endianness-for-cross-compilation.patch

diff --git a/package/nginx/0010-Allow-forcing-of-endianness-for-cross-compilation.patch b/package/nginx/0010-Allow-forcing-of-endianness-for-cross-compilation.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..137ff6ea5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/nginx/0010-Allow-forcing-of-endianness-for-cross-compilation.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+From b1a6b13d8ac2cade71bae508c7d20fbee6807e4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Nevo Hed <nhed+buildroot at starry.com>
+Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 13:28:13 -0400
+Subject: [PATCH] Allow forcing of endianness for cross-compilation
+
+Signed-off-by: Nevo Hed <nhed+buildroot at starry.com>
+---
+ auto/endianness | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
+ auto/options    |  6 +++++
+ 2 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/auto/endianness b/auto/endianness
+index 1b552b6b..4b2a3cd7 100644
+--- a/auto/endianness
++++ b/auto/endianness
+@@ -26,25 +26,44 @@ int main(void) {
+ 
+ END
+ 
+-ngx_test="$CC $CC_TEST_FLAGS $CC_AUX_FLAGS \
+-          -o $NGX_AUTOTEST $NGX_AUTOTEST.c $NGX_LD_OPT $ngx_feature_libs"
+-
+-eval "$ngx_test >> $NGX_AUTOCONF_ERR 2>&1"
+-
+-if [ -x $NGX_AUTOTEST ]; then
+-    if $NGX_AUTOTEST >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+-        echo " little endian"
++case "${NGX_FORCE_ENDIANNESS}" in
++    little)
++        echo " little endian (forced)"
+         have=NGX_HAVE_LITTLE_ENDIAN . auto/have
+-    else
+-        echo " big endian"
+-    fi
+-
+-    rm -rf $NGX_AUTOTEST*
+-
+-else
+-    rm -rf $NGX_AUTOTEST*
+-
+-    echo
+-    echo "$0: error: cannot detect system byte ordering"
+-    exit 1
+-fi
++    ;;
++
++    big)
++        echo " big endian (forced)"
++    ;;
++
++    "")
++        ngx_test="$CC $CC_TEST_FLAGS $CC_AUX_FLAGS \
++                  -o $NGX_AUTOTEST $NGX_AUTOTEST.c $NGX_LD_OPT $ngx_feature_libs"
++
++        eval "$ngx_test >> $NGX_AUTOCONF_ERR 2>&1"
++
++        if [ -x $NGX_AUTOTEST ]; then
++            if $NGX_AUTOTEST >/dev/null 2>&1; then
++                echo " little endian"
++                have=NGX_HAVE_LITTLE_ENDIAN . auto/have
++            else
++                echo " big endian"
++            fi
++
++            rm -rf $NGX_AUTOTEST*
++
++        else
++            rm -rf $NGX_AUTOTEST*
++
++            echo
++            echo "$0: error: cannot detect system byte ordering"
++            exit 1
++        fi
++    ;;
++
++    *)
++        echo
++        echo "$0: error: invalid \"--force-endianness=${NGX_FORCE_ENDIANNESS}\""
++        exit 1
++    ;;
++esac
+diff --git a/auto/options b/auto/options
+index 80be906e..85a06456 100644
+--- a/auto/options
++++ b/auto/options
+@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ NGX_USER=
+ NGX_GROUP=
+ NGX_BUILD=
+ 
++NGX_FORCE_ENDIANNESS=
++
+ CC=${CC:-cc}
+ CPP=
+ NGX_OBJS=objs
+@@ -196,6 +198,8 @@ do
+         --user=*)                        NGX_USER="$value"          ;;
+         --group=*)                       NGX_GROUP="$value"         ;;
+ 
++        --force-endianness=*)            NGX_FORCE_ENDIANNESS="$value" ;;
++
+         --crossbuild=*)                  NGX_PLATFORM="$value"      ;;
+ 
+         --build=*)                       NGX_BUILD="$value"         ;;
+@@ -432,6 +436,8 @@ cat << END
+   --build=NAME                       set build name
+   --builddir=DIR                     set build directory
+ 
++  --force-endianness=<big>|<little>  force endianness
++
+   --with-select_module               enable select module
+   --without-select_module            disable select module
+   --with-poll_module                 enable poll module
+-- 
+2.31.1
+
diff --git a/package/nginx/nginx.mk b/package/nginx/nginx.mk
index 1f996cc613..31b6e276b7 100644
--- a/package/nginx/nginx.mk
+++ b/package/nginx/nginx.mk
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ NGINX_CONF_ENV += \
 
 # prefix: nginx root configuration location
 NGINX_CONF_OPTS += \
+	--force-endianness=$(call qstrip,$(call LOWERCASE,$(BR2_ENDIAN))) \
 	--prefix=/usr \
 	--conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf \
 	--sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx \
-- 
2.31.1



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