[Buildroot] [PATCH] docs/manual: add a 'Known issues' chapter
Peter Korsgaard
jacmet at uclibc.org
Sun Oct 6 18:36:34 UTC 2013
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:
Thomas> Add a 'Known issues' chapter, which lists the exceptions I have
Thomas> currently in the autobuilder scripts to avoid known problems from
Thomas> occuring. I believe it is more useful to document them rather than
Thomas> keeping them hidden in my autobuilder script.
The uClibc dependencies are already documented in Config.in, but ok.
Thomas> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
Thomas> ---
Thomas> docs/manual/known-issues.txt | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Thomas> docs/manual/manual.txt | 2 ++
Thomas> 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+)
Thomas> create mode 100644 docs/manual/known-issues.txt
Thomas> diff --git a/docs/manual/known-issues.txt b/docs/manual/known-issues.txt
Thomas> new file mode 100644
Thomas> index 0000000..f731f8f
Thomas> --- /dev/null
Thomas> +++ b/docs/manual/known-issues.txt
Thomas> @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
Thomas> +// -*- mode:doc; -*-
Thomas> +// vim: set syntax=asciidoc:
Thomas> +
Thomas> +Known issues
Thomas> +============
Thomas> +
Thomas> +* The +ltp-testsuite+ package does not build with the default uClibc
Thomas> + configuration used by the Buildroot toolchain backend. The LTP
Thomas> + testsuite uses several functions that are considered obsolete, such
Thomas> + as sigset() and others. uClibc configuration options such as
Thomas> + DO_XSI_MATH, UCLIBC_HAS_OBSOLETE_BSD_SIGNAL and
Thomas> + UCLIBC_SV4_DEPRECATED are needed if one wants to build the
Thomas> + +ltp-testsuite+ package with uClibc. You need to either a glibc or
s/either/either use/
In all 3 sections.
Thomas> +* The +prboom+ package triggers a compiler failure with the SuperH 4
Thomas> + compiler from Soucery CodeBench, version 2012.09.
I believe we have a lot of other situations with packages triggering
internal compiler errors, especially for microblaze and avr32.
Committed with these changes, thanks.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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