Hi Mark,
Le sam. 3 oct. 2020 à 00:03, Mark Wielaard <m...@klomp.org> a écrit :
>
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 08:34:47PM +0200, Fabrice Fontaine via Elfutils-devel
> wrote:
> > From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazz...@free-electrons.com>
> >
> > Add a --{enable,disable}-progs configuration option to elfutils. This
> > allows to selectively disable the compilation of the elfutils programs
> > (in which case only the libraries are built and installed). This is
> > useful because the programs are often not needed, and also because
> > building the programs against uClibc causes several issues (lack of
> > obstack_printf() in uClibc for example).
>
> I understand why you might want this and it seems to do as described.
> But I am slightly reluctant to apply this because it totally breaks
> make check. How do you check the build is really correct? Would it be
> possible to use a small subset of the testsuite with --disable-progs?
In the context of buildroot, we're not running make check as we're
"only" interested in cross-compiling a minimal Linux system for
embedded targets.
It should be noted that this patch is keeping the current behavior
unchanged (i.e. enable_progs is set to yes by default).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
Best Regards,
Fabrice
