From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 11:38:35 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] sane-backends: uses fork(), not available on noMMU systems In-Reply-To: <1400319074-3056-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Sat, 17 May 2014 11:31:14 +0200") References: <1400319074-3056-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <87k39koick.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni writes: > sane-backends currently doesn't build with the ADI external > toolchains, due to an internal compiler failure. However, using the > internal toolchain backend for Blackfin goes past this internal > compiler failure, but raises the problem that sane-backends uses > fork(). Sane-backends has a --enable-pthreads option that allows to > use threads instead of forking in some parts of sane, but there are > still some other areas of sane-backends that continue to use fork(). > Since the probability of using sane-backends on a noMMU system is > fairly small, we'll just disable this package for now on such > architectures, until someone cares enough to investigate deeper. > Fixes: > http://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/136/136100c3a2d843b7915fdd83d23d8b301fee577e/ > Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni Committed, thanks. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard