[Buildroot] [git commit] package/polkit: bump to version 0.116

[Carlos Santos]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 5:33 AM Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Carlos,
>
> On Sun, 9 Feb 2020 21:00:31 -0300
> Carlos Santos <unixmania at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Signed-off-by: Adam Duskett <Aduskett at gmail.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>
> >
> > Argh, the mozjs (spidermonkey) dependency increases the size of the
> > target system by 45 MiB!
>
> Yes, the mozjs dependency is unfortunate, and trust me, we would very
> much have liked polkit to use a different JS engine, or no JS at all.
> We have been postponing this polkit bump for years due to this. But
> this is upstream polkit's decision, and at some point, we have no
> choice but to follow what they did.
>
> If you look at the polkit archive, many years ago there was a patch
> series posted to use the ducktape JS engine instead of mozjs. It would
> be very nice to revive this work and hopefully bring it upstream.
> Indeed, ducktape is 2 orders of magnitude smaller than mozjs I believe.
>
> > $ file build/buildroot-fs/ext2/target/usr/{bin/js60,lib/libmozjs-60.so}
> > build/buildroot-fs/ext2/target/usr/bin/js60:           ELF 64-bit LSB
> > executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked,
> > interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 4.14.0,
> > BuildID[sha1]=93295e8e66ae075577bc76110d7a81fc3f9b6359, stripped
> > build/buildroot-fs/ext2/target/usr/lib/libmozjs-60.so: ELF 64-bit LSB
> > shared object, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked,
> > BuildID[sha1]=2cda65c78b09727e5ee4ac481f8847ca07953cc9, stripped
> >
> > $ du -hc build/buildroot-fs/ext2/target/usr/{bin/js60,lib/libmozjs-60.so}
> > 23M    build/buildroot-fs/ext2/target/usr/bin/js60
>
> Is this binary dynamically linked against libmozjs, or statically
> linked against it? The fact that it has the same size as libmozjs makes
> me think it might be statically linked against it.
>
> > 23M    build/buildroot-fs/ext2/target/usr/lib/libmozjs-60.so
>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas

I'd just add --disable-js-shell to SPIDERMONKEY_CONF_OPTS, since the
JS shell is not required.

-- 
Carlos Santos <unixmania at gmail.com>