[Buildroot] [PATCH v2] mtools: do not link to libbsd

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Wed Dec 20 20:49:35 UTC 2017


>>>>> "Carlos" == Carlos Santos <casantos at datacom.ind.br> writes:

 > If libbsd is found by the configuration process, mtools unnecessarily
 > adds a NEEDED field with libbsd to its dynamic section, but it does not
 > actually use anything from libbsd under Linux. The same may happen to
 > host-mtools if some libbsd package is installed on the host machine.

 > Prevent this by forcing configure to bypass the checking for the
 > existence of a gethostbyname function in libbsd.

 > I stumbled on this problem when I built host-mtools and later removed
 > libbsd to upgrade to Fedora 27, due to Bug 1504831[1]. The previously
 > built host/bin/mtools started to fail due to the missing libbsd.so.0.

 > 1. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1504831

 > Signed-off-by: Carlos Santos <casantos at datacom.ind.br>
 > ---
 > Changes v1->v2
 >   - Improved the commit message, as requested by Baruch Siach.

Committed to 2017.02.x, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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