[opkg] "fork(): not implemented on no-mmu systems"

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Saturday 09 April 2011 10:15, Gilles wrote:
> 	After cross-compiling opkg for a non-MMU CPU, the linker displays
> the following warning:
> 
> ==============
> ...
> LINK  opkg-cl
> 
> ../libopkg/.libs/libopkg.so: warning: fork: this function is not
> implemented on no-mmu systems
> 
> Making all in tests
> 
>   CC    libopkg_test.o
> 
>   LINK  libopkg_test
> 
> 
> ../libopkg/.libs/libopkg.a(libbb_la-gz_open.o): In function `gz_open':
> 
> /tmp/opkg-576/libbb/gz_open.c:47: warning: fork: this function is not
> implemented on no-mmu systems
> ==============
> 
> I'm told that this means that calling fork() will fail, but the
> importance of this call depends on how the source code works (I guess
> that means whether replacing this with vfork() is either very simple
> or would require a significant rewrite):
> 
> http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=living_without_forks
> http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=porting_applications
> 
> Does someone know more about this issue when cross-compiling opkg?

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