[yocto] issue building iputils with uclibc.

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Paul Eggleton
<paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 29 March 2012 14:20:44 John Toomey wrote:
>> On 20/03/2012 16:56, Khem Raj wrote:
>> > go into the uclibc build tree and like kernel or busybox it will have
>> > a .config and grok that. If this is disabled then enable it in
>> > uClibc.distro file under uclibc recipes dir and rebuild uclibc.
>> > ideally these are distro knobs but for tests you can try it
>> > file ( uclibc uses kconfig )
>>
>> I am unable to find a .config file in the uclibc build tree, can you be
>> more specific about the path i might find it at?
>>
>> UCLIBC_HAS_RESOLVER_SUPPORT=y doesnt seem to be present in the
>> uClibc.distro file, i added it and tried running the build again with no
>> success. Is there anything else I can try?
>
> OK, so I just gave this build a try. You can find the configuration actually
> used in the build in TMPDIR/work/i586-poky-linux-uclibc/uclibc-0.9.32-
> r4.3/git/.config  (directory names may vary slightly depending on your build
> configuration).
>
> With master, when I checked my version of that file,
> UCLIBC_HAS_RESOLVER_SUPPORT=y is set, so apparently this feature is getting
> enabled by default. However, when I did the same on edison (which uses uclibc
> 0.9.32 as opposed to 0.9.33) that setting is not present. Digging around I'm
> beginning to wonder if this option was perhaps added in uclibc 0.9.33, which
> if true would explain why it is not present when building uclibc in edison;
> but does that mean the underlying functionality was added in that version or
> just the option?

thats makes it clear. Its 0.9.33 feature. I was assuming thats what
you were using.

>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
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> Paul Eggleton
> Intel Open Source Technology Centre