[Buildroot] [PATCH] elfutils: disable for static builds
Peter Korsgaard
jacmet at uclibc.org
Fri Nov 7 07:57:04 UTC 2014
>>>>> "Vicente" == Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera at imgtec.com> writes:
> Even when doing static builds, a shared library is built. This causes a
> build failure under some circumstances, for instance when building for
> MIPS + uClibc + static.
> After asking upstream if it would be possible to add a configure option
> to not build the shared library, the answer was that doing a static
> build is not a good idea. Here is a small snippet of the conversation:
> "Note that fully static builds are problematic. elfutils uses dlopen to
> open the EBL backends (the CPU-specific support snippets), so even if
> you link statically, the final binaries are still considerably dynamic."
> Related:
> https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/elfutils-devel/2014-November/004223.html
> Fixes:
> http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/691/6913f5af6519463fbed39ef37b6a40ecf6a67b54/
> Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera at imgtec.com>
Committed, thanks.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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