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Hello. |
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I am maintaining small arm tree built with gentoo crosstools. My |
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rootfs is based on busybox, which has implementation of udev (called |
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mdev). My questions are about bad things i found while working with |
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it. |
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Recently i have to compile sys-devel/libtool to get libltdl - one of |
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its runtime libs. The ebuild has following deps: |
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RDEPEND="sys-devel/gnuconfig |
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>=sys-devel/autoconf-2.60 |
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>=sys-devel/automake-1.10.1" |
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DEPEND="${RDEPEND} |
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|| ( app-arch/xz-utils app-arch/lzma-utils ) |
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sys-apps/help2man" |
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I think that auto* tools are not required on target system for ltdl to |
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work. More, those auto-tools implicitly require bash which is not |
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installed in system. |
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I solved the problem by fixing the ebuild in local overlay but it is |
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just workaround. Should i register a libtool bug? Maybe (just guess) |
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one should split libtool into 'runtime' and 'buildtime' packets? |
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Here is another issue: |
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Lets look at dev-libs/openct ebuild. |
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RDEPEND="pcsc-lite? ( sys-apps/pcsc-lite ) |
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usb? ( virtual/libusb:0 ) |
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>=sys-fs/udev-096" |
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My system doesn't have udev. It has mdev from busybox. Openct docs |
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says that mdev is ok, so should i register an ebuild-bug and suggest |
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something like 'udev useflag'? There are util-linux dependencies, |
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which are also incompatible with busybox. I am in doubt. |
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Will be glad to hear your opinion. |
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Thanks, |
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Sergey |
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