[Buildroot] [PATCH] pcre: always enable the 8-bits version
Peter Korsgaard
jacmet at uclibc.org
Sat Mar 9 20:07:31 UTC 2013
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:
Thomas> Commit 7154798a461a8b2c (pcre: add support for 16 bits and 32 bits
Thomas> variants), added in preparation to the introduction of the Qt5
Thomas> packages, could break other packages that use pcre.
Thomas> Even though by default the pcre 8 bits library is selected if no other
Thomas> variant is selected, a randpackageconfig, or an user, could
Thomas> potentially enable the 16 bits variant even if a package requires the
Thomas> 8 bits variant.
Thomas> This has caused a number of build breakage on packages like ngrep,
Thomas> cegui, nmap and others in the autobuilders.
Thomas> In older to solve this, we simply unconditionally build the 8-bits
Thomas> variant. Since each variant is only ~90k in size, it's probably not
Thomas> worth the effort giving the possibility of building the 16 bits
Thomas> variant only.
Committed, thanks.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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