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Cover letter [Buildroot] [PATCH 00/47] package/kodi: bump version to 15.0 Isengard

Hi Thomas,
Thomas Petazzoni wrote,

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Bernd,

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Kodi 15.0 Isengard was released yesterday:
http://kodi.tv/kodi-15-0-isengard-one-release-to-rule-them-all/

Another thing: it does not build on ARM with uClibc. I get the following error:

/home/thomas/projets/buildroot/output/host/opt/ext-toolchain/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-buildroot-linux-uclibcgnueabi/4.7.4/libgcc.a(linux-atomic-64bit.o): In function `__check_for_sync8_kernelhelper':
/opt/toolchain-build/build/host-gcc-final-4.7.4/build/arm-buildroot-linux-uclibcgnueabi/libgcc/../../../libgcc/config/arm/linux-atomic-64bit.c:59: undefined reference to `__write'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Makefile:486: recipe for target 'kodi.bin' failed

This is with the toolchain configuration at
http://autobuild.buildroot.org/toolchains/configs/br-arm-full.config + rpi-userland as the OpenGL ES backend.

This error is apparently due to the fact that we're using a 64 bits atomic operation implemented by libgcc, which requires assistance from the kernel. libgcc has some code to print a message when the kernel doesn't provide the necessary syscall, and this code calls __write(). This function seems to not be provided by uClibc (while it is probably provided by glibc).

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I'm Cc'ing Waldemar, maybe he has some ideas.

However, generally speaking I believe supporting Kodi on uClibc is a bit useless: Kodi is anyway so big that the size benefits of uClibc are no longer significant. So if this problem pops up in the autobuilders and isn't fixed by then, I'll mark Kodi as glibc only for the moment.

Thanks!

It is not useless in my point of view. When we support bigger applications with long runtimes with uClibc, we can be sure to have good quality in the C library. So even if we do not do it because of any space limitations it will uncover some bugs.

So please do not disable it. I tried a build with Kodi and uClibc-ng with OpenADK and did not get a build error.

May be the GCC version is problematic? 4.7.4 is rather old. Does it happen with gcc 4.9.3?

best regards
Waldemar