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Thomas Petazzoni f4083db2ee libunwind: needs dynamic library support
libunwind configure script explicitly links libunwind against
libgcc_s. libgcc_s is only guaranteed to be available for toolchains
that supports dynamic linking: pure static linking toolchains only
have libgcc.a, not libgcc_s.so.

Therefore, let's make libunwind unavailable on toolchains that lack
dynamic linking support. We could potentially support linking with
libgcc, but switching to libgcc_s was done upstream because libgcc was
lacking some symbols on ARM
(https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/libunwind-devel/2014-06/msg00024.html). Even
though recent gcc versions seem to provide such symbols in libgcc.a,
having libunwind available on static linking configurations is not a
useful enough use-case to do the necessary research to find when this
issue was fixed in gcc.

Since libunwind is not used as a mandatory dependency in any package,
adding this !BR2_STATIC_LIBS dependency is trivial and nicely avoids
the problematic situation.

This fixes two different autobuilder failures:

 - Gstreamer 1.x programs failing to link, because libunwind links
   against libgcc_s that isn't available (static linking
   configuration):

   http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/9d4fbf7167e9afce0eef5c9e0cfd42c966ecba36/

 - Gmrender-resurrect, which fails to link, because GStreamer 1.x uses
   some libunwind functionality, but does not take into account the
   libunwind dependency in its .pc files (static linking
   configuration):

   http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/0a3a2485c187a000482c178f1e9c64dd716a858f/

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-08-21 23:30:04 +02:00
arch arch/arm: add big.LITTLE cpu variants 2017-07-22 23:29:24 +02:00
board board: remove Armadeus's APF9328 support 2017-08-21 23:23:16 +02:00
boot boot/syslinux: fix i386 bios build with recent binutils 2017-08-16 22:54:03 +02:00
configs board: remove Armadeus's APF9328 support 2017-08-21 23:23:16 +02:00
docs Update for 2017.08-rc2 2017-08-11 22:36:39 +02:00
fs fs/iso9660: really create initrd temp dir 2017-08-15 17:50:11 +02:00
linux linux: bump default to version 4.12.8 2017-08-19 15:13:10 +02:00
package libunwind: needs dynamic library support 2017-08-21 23:30:04 +02:00
support support/testing: allow to use a multiplier for timeouts 2017-08-10 10:08:06 +02:00
system skeleton: Rename skeleton-sysv to skeleton-init-sysv 2017-08-14 21:52:45 +02:00
toolchain core/pkg-toolchain-external: quiesce spurious stderr 2017-08-19 15:06:45 +02:00
utils utils/readme.txt: add documentation of genrandconfig 2017-07-29 15:41:09 +02:00
.defconfig arch: remove support for sh64 2016-09-08 22:15:15 +02:00
.gitignore update gitignore 2013-05-04 12:41:55 +02:00
.gitlab-ci.yml board: remove Armadeus's APF9328 support 2017-08-21 23:23:16 +02:00
.gitlab-ci.yml.in .gitlab-ci.yml: use large timeouts for runtime tests 2017-08-10 10:08:55 +02:00
CHANGES Update for 2017.08-rc2 2017-08-11 22:36:39 +02:00
Config.in Config.in: add BR2_HOST_GCC_AT_LEAST_7 2017-07-05 16:20:27 +02:00
Config.in.legacy binutils: remove support for 2.26 2017-08-01 23:38:05 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: add exception about patch licensing 2016-02-26 19:50:13 +01:00
DEVELOPERS configs/socrates_cyclone5: new defconfig 2017-08-02 21:45:26 +02:00
Makefile Update for 2017.08-rc2 2017-08-11 22:36:39 +02:00
Makefile.legacy Remove BR2_DEPRECATED 2016-10-15 23:14:45 +02:00
README README: add reference to submitting-patches 2016-02-01 19:16:08 +01:00

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