[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/1] package/avahi: add optional support for libcap

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Feb 25 22:12:17 UTC 2016


Bernd,

On Sun, 21 Feb 2016 18:57:19 +0100, Bernd Kuhls wrote:
> When libcap was compiled before, avahi daemon will use it as optional
> dependency:
> 
> $ output/host/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-readelf -a output/target/usr/sbin/avahi-daemon | grep NEEDED | sort
>  0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libavahi-common.so.3]
>  0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libavahi-core.so.7]
>  0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libcap.so.2]
> [...]
> 
> The build system offers no option to en-/disable libcap support:
> http://git.0pointer.net/avahi.git/tree/configure.ac#n382
> 
> The check for libcap was placed inside the BR2_PACKAGE_AVAHI_DAEMON
> because only avahi-daemon uses libcap, it provides chroot support.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bernd Kuhls <bernd.kuhls at t-online.de>
> ---
> v2: moved the new code block a bit and added more notes about the usage
>     of libcap (Thomas)

I've changed the patch to have the libcap condition outside of the
avahi daemon condition, as discussed during the review, and applied to
master.

Thanks!

Thomas
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