[Buildroot] Open bug analysis (Feb 20)

[Thomas De Schampheleire]

All,

We have been able to close many bugs already, 21 bugs remaining, of which:
- 7 new package requests (patches often available)
- 2 indicators of disabled builds on some arch (dmraid, gpsd)

*Bugs for which an action is already proposed*.
Feedback on this is requested: do you agree or not with the proposed action?

Dbus and /var/run management
https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=5420
Here I don't see what the problem is. It is about the creation of
/var/run/dbus while /var/run is a symlink to /tmp. Looking at the
code, I don't see how it can be a problem (which I responded in the
bug report). Unless someone can explain what is going wrong exactly, I
would propose to close this (Resolved/Worksforme for example).
Do you agree?

Support for kernel signed modules
https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=6764
Arnout suggested to close this bug explaining the submitter that this
is a kernel problem, not something we can solve in buildroot. This is
fine by me.
Do others agree?

Busybox compiled from buildroot hangs on pass from intiramfs to init
https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=6794
The submitter claims that stripping the busybox binary causes
incorrect runtime behavior. I asked for more info, but no response. I
would propose to close this as Worksforme.


*Bugs that have patches attached that should be sent to the list (not
package patches)*: (adopters welcome)

procps Unknown HZ value! (XX) Assume 100.
https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=6626
ThomasP proposed to replace procps with procps-ng, the submitter
provided a patch, but did not send it to the list.


*Bugs needing investigation*

Checking external toolchain for eabihf
https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=6842

Running udhcpc on a system with NFS root kills NFS
https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=4790

Boot hangs when starting samba if BR2_ENABLE_LOCALE is enabled
https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=5396

config flags to the Xenomai build system
https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=5900

Cannot compile gcc without threads (uClibc-based)
https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=6230


*Bugs under investigation by someone already*:

Doing a Buildroot build from /usr doesn't work
https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=5750
This bug is under investigation by myself, it won't be done before
2014.02 though.

Not able to build ALSA-Lib for static build
https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=5768
and
Not able to build ALSA-Utils for static build
https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=5774
I have sent patches that fix these problems and received some
feedback, that I will address. However, it will not be for 2014.02
anymore.


Thanks all for your feedback,
Thomas