[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 2/9] dumb-init: new package

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Thu Mar 1 16:08:07 UTC 2018


Hello,

On Thu, 01 Mar 2018 16:51:35 +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

>  > On Thu,  1 Mar 2018 02:20:05 -0500, Christian Stewart wrote:  
> 
>  > However, using -static has a problem: what happens when you're doing a
>  > BR2_SHARED_LIBS=y configuration, i.e when there is only support for
>  > shared libraries, and not static libraries ? And BR2_SHARED_LIBS=y is
>  > our default.  
> 
> dumb-init doesn't depend on any libraries, so the only issue is static
> linking with glibc, right?

No, you can also have musl or uclibc configured shared-only, which is
the case by default since BR2_SHARED_LIBS=y.

Basically, I believe that Christian's patch simply doesn't work with
the default Buildroot configuration of BR2_SHARED_LIBS=y.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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