package/libcap: fix static linking issues
authorThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Wed, 9 Sep 2020 21:02:50 +0000 (23:02 +0200)
committerYann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Wed, 9 Sep 2020 22:06:46 +0000 (00:06 +0200)
commit9c13e02c35c74eca56e69f2bbfde452b51860f5e
tree54557874feed0bfe454c572937b2c19485c3ed3c
parentc2bc0694c45bb6bc0a19e06b2fcddff365be5a2e
package/libcap: fix static linking issues

Since the bump of libcap to 2.42, host-libcap unconditionally tries to
build a shared library, which fails on build machines where the static
version of the C library is not available.

This issue was reported upstream, who fixed it by two different
commits, which are backported as patches 0001 and 0002. They require
passing a DYNAMIC= value, which should be "yes" to enable dynamic
linking, or empty when not using dynamic linking.

However, other upstream changes broke our logic to support static-only
linking for the target. So we introduce a 0003 patch which extends how
the DYNAMIC flag is used to disable the build of the shared library in
the libcap/ folder. This allows to greatly simplify libcap.mk.

Note that the refactoring is mixed with the fix: the two are hardly
splitable. We need to be able to pass the same options at all steps, and
especially the staging step, otherwise some code gets compiled with the
host compiler, installed in staging, and thus fails the architecture
check later on.

Fixes:

  host-libcap build failure on system without a static libc
  http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/4b14458014e420ffe088f118e7d0261e67f2d551/

  libcap build failure on static only systems
  http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/8961759067c4639ae697b6ee5db606f098b7c7e8/

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr:
  - also pass DYNAMIC=yes at host-install step
  - extend commit log to explain why we refactor and fix together
]
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
package/libcap/0001-Support-dynamic-test-compilation-and-execution.patch [new file with mode: 0644]
package/libcap/0002-Migrate-all-uses-of-tcapsh-static-to-sudotest-target.patch [new file with mode: 0644]
package/libcap/0003-libcap-Makefile-disable-building-installing-shared-l.patch [new file with mode: 0644]
package/libcap/libcap.mk