[Buildroot] [PATCH] libevent: Add Gentoo patch for C libraries without the sysctl syscall

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Wed Dec 5 16:51:54 UTC 2012


>>>>> "Markos" == Markos Chandras <markos.chandras at gmail.com> writes:

Hi,

 >> +++ b/package/libevent/libevent-sysctl.patch
 >> @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
 >> +Add Gentoo fix for C libraries that lack the sysctl system call
 >> +http://sources2.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/dev-libs/libevent/files/libevent-2.0.16-sysctl.patch?revision=1.1
 >> +This patch has already been commited upstream
 >> +
 >> +Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras at imgtec.com>
 >> +
 >> +From 358c745e5432f7648b6f8b3188f32b5551cbf9d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
 >> +From: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org>
 >> +Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 11:39:48 -0500
 >> +Subject: [PATCH] check for sysctl before we use it
 >> +
 >> +Not all C libraries under Linux support the sysctl() func.

 Markos> Ping? :-)

What archs (in Buildroot context) are affected by this?

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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