[OE-core] [PATCH] nss: 3.45 -> 3.47.1

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 7:21 AM Alexander Kanavin
<alex.kanavin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 13 Dec 2019 at 15:46, Andreas Müller <schnitzeltony at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >> Fails on beaglebone:
>> >>
>> >> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/65/builds/1327
>> >
>> >
>> > I had a look into this: the issue is that new versions of nss require hardware crypto capabilities on ARM (both 32 and 64 bit).
>> Do you have an link for this?
>
>
> Yes. We are using plain Makefiles to build (and not gyp), so the link is:
>
> https://github.com/nss-dev/nss/blob/4703a817f8b90cc3423620e5c7606bdbcedbcf2e/lib/freebl/Makefile#L782
>
>>
>> I think we should not do that because:
>>
>> Build log says:
>> | cc1: error: switch '-mcpu=cortex-a8' conflicts with '-march=armv8-a'
>> switch [-Werror]
>> | cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
>>
>> Nss sets '-march=armv8-a'. Checked in their sources and found that
>> this is done in lib/freebl source path [1]. With latests sources from
>> gihub-shadow they introduced 'disable_arm_hw_aes' [1]. Have no idea if
>> 3.47.1 already supports that but we should use it as packageconfig.
>
>
> This option is only available with gyp, and not plain Makefiles unfortunately. And the way I read it,
> it's not actually possible to disable :-/
>

nss is used in quite a few apps, and disabling armv7a is not a good
option, plus hw crypto is only in armv8
thing.

> Alex
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