[Buildroot] [PATCH] audiofile: does not build with static-only

[Gustavo Zacarias]

On 05/25/2014 06:00 PM, Luca Ceresoli wrote:

> Ah, I see, I hadn't followed that discussion and was not aware of such
> work you're doing. Sorry for the noise and thanks for the detailed
> clarification.
> 
> I understand the solution won't land in 2014.05.
> I wonder what's the best thing to do in cases like this to make users
> aware what there's a known bug in a release.
> 
> Should audiofile depend on BROKEN if BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB? This way it
> would disappear from both the user's sight and the autobuilders, but
> still visible via menuconfig search.
> 
> Or should we just add a comment that depends on audiofile and
> BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB?
> 
> I think the former (o the sum of the two) is preferred. It would stop
> polluting the autobuilders with known bugs and track the issue via
> `git grep BROKEN`.
> 
> Helping in fixing this bug is out of reach for me, but I can at least
> send a patch for BROKEN if it's the proper way to go.

Doing anything for 2014.05 at this point would be band aid, audiofile is
the usual failing package because it sorts nicely at the beginning, but
there are other packages that will show up if it's blacklisted.
Maybe removing static builds from the testing rotation would be nice,
but then we want to find broken stuff :)
Regards.