[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 4/8] vlc: remove dependency on C library

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Mon Feb 1 18:04:59 UTC 2016


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:

 > vlc uses <spawn.h> which was not available in old uClibc
 > versions. However, since we are removing support for uClibc 0.9.33, we
 > can get rid of such dependency. In addition, <spawn.h> is provided by
 > musl, and therefore VLC can be enabled with this C library.

 > Consequently, this commit completely removes any C library dependency
 > for the vlc package. The only special case that needs to be handled is
 > the Blackfin external toolchain from Analog Devices, which still uses
 > an old uClibc version that doesn't provide <spawn.h>.

vlc contains several references to fork(), so it should really just
depend on BR2_USE_MMU.

Committed with that fixed, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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