[Buildroot] [PATCH v1 1/4] libpjsip: add gnutls support and fix various things

Patrick Keroulas patrick.keroulas at savoirfairelinux.com
Wed May 4 15:22:24 UTC 2016


Arnout, all,

On May 3, 2016, at 5:43 PM, Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be wrote:
> On 05/03/16 23:08, Patrick Keroulas wrote:
>> Hello Thomas,
>> 
>> On Apr 22, 2016, at 5:21 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
>> thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com wrote:
>>> However, Buildroot has the policy of not carrying feature patches,
>>> which this one clearly is. Some please get this patch integrated
>>> upstream first, and then we can benefit from this feature in Buildroot.
>>> 
>>> Having large feature patches like this one in Buildroot would prevent
>>> us from easily updating libpjsip in the future, which is not a
>>> situation we like.
>> 
>> We've been trying to push these patches up-stream for 2 years now, without
>> response from pjproject.
>> http://lists.pjsip.org/pipermail/pjsip_lists.pjsip.org/2014-May/017492.html
>> http://lists.pjsip.org/pipermail/pjsip_lists.pjsip.org/2015-January/018072.html
> 
> Well, in that case, we're even less motivated to carry these feature patches...
> 
> But you can easily keep it in your own BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR.

What if my intended package (ring-daemon in patch 4/4) doesn't even build 
without this gnutls support in libpjsip?
Is it acceptable to include <global-patch-dir> in package/ring-daemon/?
Do I have an alternative?

Regards,

Patrick


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