[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/2] libffi: make thread support optional

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Oct 29 21:24:18 UTC 2014


Dear Jérôme Pouiller,

On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:26:41 +0200, Jérôme Pouiller wrote:
> From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
> 
> Fixes:
> 
>   http://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/7ee57d01917ea72d1811469e482513dda2ceb1ea/build-end.log
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jérôme Pouiller <jezz at sysmic.org>

To be honest, I am wondering if we really should bother merging a patch
to make libffi usable on configurations that have thread support
disabled. Nowadays, not having thread support is also impossible due to
the large number of libraries/applications that rely on threads. libffi
is generally used in "big" things like Python or glib, so not having
thread support in systems using such big things is a bit unlikely.

In addition, I'm not sure the patch could be upstreamed as is, which
means we would have to carry it in Buildroot forever.

Peter, Arnout, Gustavo, what is your point of view on this?

Thomas
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