[Buildroot] [PATCH v1] valgrind: fix uclibc c99 support detection

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Sun Oct 28 09:44:50 UTC 2018


Hello,

On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 10:39:57 +0100, Peter Seiderer wrote:
> Fixes [1]:
> 
>   checking for /home/peko/autobuild/instance-0/output/host/bin/powerpc-linux-gcc option to accept ISO C99... unsupported
>   configure: error: Valgrind relies on a C compiler supporting C99
> 
> with the following in the valgrind-3.14.0/config.log:
> 
>   configure:5517: checking for .../host/bin/powerpc-linux-gcc option to accept ISO C99
>   configure:5666: .../host/bin/powerpc-linux-gcc -c -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -Os -fno-stack-protector -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 conftest.c >&5
>   conftest.c:55:9: error: unknown type name 'wchar_t'
>      const wchar_t *name;
>            ^~~~~~~
> 
> [1] http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/b25013f785a11f07e8da3735741b96036712f42a

So the autoconf test verifies that WCHAR support is available, which is
not (the toolchain doesn't provide it), but in practice, Valgrind does
not need WCHAR support ?

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
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