[OE-core] [PATCH] swuashfs-tools: Enable on musl

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 6:35 AM Adrian Bunk <bunk at stusta.de> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 11:03:52PM -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
> > Upstream has a patch [1] to fix musl builds, Prior to this it would not
> > build on musl due to missing GNU extentions for fnmatch
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools/commit/4280e74de14070869787a9166242f9ce2dafd82e
> >...
>
> I did already remove a similar bogus squashfs-tools change from OE,
> with similar FNM_EXTMATCH "fixes" in ifupdown and elfutils
> also resulting in the expected runtime misbehaviour.
>

I think it would be better to use gnulib implementation for these
packages you point out
and those patches will be upstream worthy and make them portable
as well.
At least it is calling out bad elements.

> I am not a fan of this musl way of fixing build failures by turning them
> into runtime breakages.