boost: fix build on ARC
authorThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Wed, 19 Aug 2015 18:26:52 +0000 (20:26 +0200)
committerPeter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Wed, 19 Aug 2015 21:06:59 +0000 (23:06 +0200)
commitb7aee38fe2d6409caa2b12d2b6a1e6acdf19014f
treecca759440e4850ebb7576796c4ebfc19d9a11bda
parent93f6baf135866adcea7a3d77b033fb2cad931d61
boost: fix build on ARC

This commit adds a patch to Boost to make it use the eventfd()
function provided by the C library when uClibc is used, rather than
falling back to using directly the __NR_eventfd system call. This
fixes the build on ARC, which doesn't define __NR_eventfd.

The original problem is that uClibc pretends to be glibc 2.2, which
didn't had eventfd(), so Boost makes the system call
manually. uClibc-ng, in its next release, will pretend to be glibc
2.10 (see
http://cgit.uclibc-ng.org/cgi/cgit/uclibc-ng.git/commit/?id=4ff3a6c8eb91db71d6dc3d2932b66e848bd20ac3),
which will also fix the problem, but requires bumping the uClibc
version, rebuilding the external toolchains, and so on.

Ideally, Boost should be doing a compile test to detect if eventfd()
is available or not, but the Boost build system is so brain-damaged
that doing so would require way too much effort.

Fixes:

  http://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/22b/22b710346d2cd78b7b51cdccd18d670bb6ac5d24/
  and many similar build failures

[Peter: minor tweaks to description]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
package/boost/0004-fix-uclibc-eventfd.patch [new file with mode: 0644]