[oe] [PATCH 1/2] micro-uclibc: add xattr to distro features to fix build failure of libcap2

Tom Rini tom_rini at mentor.com
Sat Feb 26 22:26:36 UTC 2011


On 02/26/2011 12:20 PM, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 19:59 +0100, Petr Štetiar wrote:
>> Phil Blundell<philb at gnu.org>  [2011-02-26 18:39:38]:
>>
>>> On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 18:44 +0100, Petr Štetiar wrote:
>>>> cap_file.c:8:23: fatal error: sys/xattr.h: No such file or directory
>>>
>>> Are you really using POSIX.1e caps on micro?  If yes then I guess this
>>> is fine, though it would be interesting to know what the code size
>>> impact is.
>>
>> I don't use micro at all, I've just added it as another test target for
>> 2011.03 release and the build of console-image failed on libcap2 so I've tried
>> to fix it. That's all behind it.
>
> Which package in console-image depends on libcap2?  It might be worth
> exploring whether there is a way to avoid that dependency.

avahi brings in libcap2 now.  I suppose it's possible to make that xattr 
DISTRO_FEATURE spell that part out and update all of the distros.  But 
maybe that can wait until post release?

-- 
Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation




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