kumquat-buildroot/package/boost/0004-fix-uclibc-eventfd.patch
Thomas Petazzoni b7aee38fe2 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>
2015-08-19 23:06:59 +02:00

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Use eventfd() function with uClibc
The Boost eventfd code either directly makes the eventfd system call
using __NR_eventfd (when __GLIBC_MINOR is less than 8), or otherwise
uses the eventfd() function provided by the C library.
However, since uClibc pretends to be glibc 2.2, the Boost eventfd code
directly uses the system call. While it works fine on most
architectures, it doesn't on ARC since __NR_eventfd is not defined on
this architecture. However, eventfd() is properly implemented.
So, this patch adjusts the logic used by Boost to consider uClibc as a
C library providing the eventfd() function.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Index: b/boost/asio/detail/impl/eventfd_select_interrupter.ipp
===================================================================
--- a/boost/asio/detail/impl/eventfd_select_interrupter.ipp
+++ b/boost/asio/detail/impl/eventfd_select_interrupter.ipp
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
-#if __GLIBC__ == 2 && __GLIBC_MINOR__ < 8
+#if __GLIBC__ == 2 && __GLIBC_MINOR__ < 8 && !defined(__UCLIBC__)
# include <asm/unistd.h>
#else // __GLIBC__ == 2 && __GLIBC_MINOR__ < 8
# include <sys/eventfd.h>
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
void eventfd_select_interrupter::open_descriptors()
{
-#if __GLIBC__ == 2 && __GLIBC_MINOR__ < 8
+#if __GLIBC__ == 2 && __GLIBC_MINOR__ < 8 && !defined(__UCLIBC__)
write_descriptor_ = read_descriptor_ = syscall(__NR_eventfd, 0);
if (read_descriptor_ != -1)
{