On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 07:59:25PM -0700, Bryan Kadzban wrote: > > Pulling in a reply from the other thread... > > Ken Moffat wrote: > > but I'm still expecting to see moans about this new requirement, > > Yeah, that's understandable. Hmm. > > Well, looking at the original commit, it simply turned on the build of > librpcsvc (for cross-compiles), and added a bunch of extra stuff to make > it build in a cross-compile setup. It seems like the chapter 5 glibc > shouldn't need librpcsvc anyway -- though I have not tried turning it > off, and don't know if there's another easy way to disable it or not. > > Digging through a few of the glibc Makefiles, what happens if you try, > without /usr/include/rpc/*.h, and with just the current state of the > book (no other workarounds), this: > > make need-export-routines="" cross-rpcgen-objs="" > > The first should cause rpc-compat-routines, rpc-compat-routines.os, and > extra-objs to all become empty; that, in turn, *should* cause > librpc_compat_pic.a to become empty, which should (I hope) cause this > all to stop getting built in chapter 5? > > And the .c file in question is built twice; once for cross-rpcgen and > once for rpcgen. Setting cross-rpcgen-objs to "" will -- assuming that > actually works :-) -- avoid compiling that file, at least. It *should* > also stop building rpcgen the binary (since it no longer depends on > anything). > Dunno - with that patch, which I still think is not the sort of thing we want to maintain, chapter 5 built ok without rpc headers, and chapter 6 has just installed. For chapter 6, the new configure option appears to be working [ _not_ needed in chapter 5 ], but I'll leave it running through to the end of chapter 6.
Will possibly try what you have suggested tomorrow, but I'm inceasingly not convinced it is necessary : if upstream require the rpc headers when cross-compiling, and those do not pollute the build, then working around it seems to be a waste of time ? ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
