[Buildroot] [PATCH 5/5 v5] boot/systemd-boot: new package

[James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 5:38 AM Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> wrote:
>
> James, All,
>
> On 2018-12-29 04:50 -0600, James Hilliard spake thusly:
> > On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 3:35 AM Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> wrote:
> > > On 2018-12-27 05:01 -0600, James Hilliard spake thusly:
> > > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 4:57 AM Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> wrote:
> > > > > On 2018-12-27 04:42 -0600, James Hilliard spake thusly:
> > > > > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 4:40 AM Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> wrote:
> > > > > > > I can confirm that, without the hunk in src/systemd/meson.build, I was
> > > > > > > able to build systemd with this defconfig:
> > > > > > >     BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_GLIBC=y
> > > > > > >     BR2_INIT_SYSTEMD=y
> > > > > > That's without c++ right?
> > >
> > > Your no-C++ patch has been accepted upstream! :-)
> > >
> > > Care to backport that fix in Buildroot, please?
> > Backported in my tree here
> > https://github.com/jameshilliard/buildroot/tree/systemd-boot
>
> Could you please send it soon to the list as a patch to systemd, as it
> is not correlated to systemd-boot at all (it is also needed by systemd
> to build on a non-C++ toolchain)?
Will do, hadn't noticed the v240 bump was already merged.
>
> > I did a test build selecting only systemd-boot and now I get this error:
> > Program gperf found: NO
> > meson.build:634:0: ERROR:  Program(s) ['gperf'] not found or not executable
>
> Until now, only minor patching was needed (a header and two libs checks)
> that were trivial to patchout. But this new gperf check is less trivial
> to patch-out in a way that is maintainable long-term.
I'm pretty sure I had this same issue even in systemd v239. That's why
I sent that giant patch here
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1018502/.
>
> My opinion now is now joining that of Thomas, that we should not try to
> build a standalone systemd-boot until it is properly supported by
> upstream. Work to that effect should be directed at upstream rather than
> monkey-patching in Buildroot.
>
> Regards,
> Yann E. MORIN.
>
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