[Buildroot] [PATCH 07/15] ltp-testsuite: bump version and use autotargets

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sun Dec 12 22:46:25 UTC 2010


On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 23:21:24 +0100
Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at uclibc.org> wrote:

>  Thomas> ltp-testsuite uses sigset(), which is obsolete. uClibc can
>  Thomas> implement it, but not with our default configuration. I
>  Thomas> thought ltp-testsuite was not of sufficiently general usage
>  Thomas> to decide to make the change of our default uClibc
>  Thomas> configuration. The option is UCLIBC_HAS_OBSOLETE_BSD_SIGNAL.
> 
> Ok.
> 
>  Thomas> BTW, I have the same problem with the mrouted package, which
>  Thomas> needs UCLIBC_SUPPORT_AI_ADDRCONFIG enabled in uClibc to
>  Thomas> compile. For this package, I just added a comment in the
>  Thomas> Config.in help text mentionning this. Should I do the same
>  Thomas> with ltp-testsuite ?
> 
> Yeah, I would say this is good enough.

So you mean that just like for mrouted, I should allow the selection of
ltp-testsuite with uClibc, even though it would not build with our
default uClibc configuration ?

> We could ofcourse add toolchain knobs for all of these, but as you say
> they are probably not worth the effort / extra complexity. I think
> just leaving them like this is good enough.

Obviously, I don't think it's reasonable to add dozens of toolchain
configuration knobs.

Regards,

Thomas
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