From patchwork Sun Oct 6 17:49:07 2013 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Thomas Petazzoni X-Patchwork-Id: 280891 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from whitealder.osuosl.org (whitealder.osuosl.org [140.211.166.138]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42D202C00CE for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2013 04:49:15 +1100 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by whitealder.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C981B8C603; Sun, 6 Oct 2013 17:49:13 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at osuosl.org Received: from whitealder.osuosl.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (.osuosl.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id q6BblhcXc1ou; Sun, 6 Oct 2013 17:49:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ash.osuosl.org (ash.osuosl.org [140.211.166.34]) by whitealder.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 894FF8BF79; Sun, 6 Oct 2013 17:49:11 +0000 (UTC) X-Original-To: buildroot@lists.busybox.net Delivered-To: buildroot@osuosl.org Received: from whitealder.osuosl.org (whitealder.osuosl.org [140.211.166.138]) by ash.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F3B41BF9D4 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2013 17:49:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by whitealder.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04AE08BF43 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2013 17:49:10 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at osuosl.org Received: from whitealder.osuosl.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (.osuosl.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id tDLDY1+HiMW6 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2013 17:49:09 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mail.free-electrons.com (top.free-electrons.com [176.31.233.9]) by whitealder.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3026F8BF79 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2013 17:49:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.free-electrons.com (Postfix, from userid 106) id 99125899; Sun, 6 Oct 2013 19:49:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (AToulouse-651-1-247-171.w90-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [90.50.2.171]) by mail.free-electrons.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 668D58E6 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2013 19:49:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Petazzoni To: buildroot@uclibc.org Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 19:49:07 +0200 Message-Id: <1381081747-20598-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.2 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] docs/manual: add a 'Known issues' chapter X-BeenThere: buildroot@busybox.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion and development of buildroot List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: buildroot-bounces@busybox.net Sender: buildroot-bounces@busybox.net Add a 'Known issues' chapter, which lists the exceptions I have currently in the autobuilder scripts to avoid known problems from occuring. I believe it is more useful to document them rather than keeping them hidden in my autobuilder script. Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni Acked-by: Samuel Martin --- docs/manual/known-issues.txt | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ docs/manual/manual.txt | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/manual/known-issues.txt diff --git a/docs/manual/known-issues.txt b/docs/manual/known-issues.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f731f8f --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/manual/known-issues.txt @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +// -*- mode:doc; -*- +// vim: set syntax=asciidoc: + +Known issues +============ + +* The +ltp-testsuite+ package does not build with the default uClibc + configuration used by the Buildroot toolchain backend. The LTP + testsuite uses several functions that are considered obsolete, such + as sigset() and others. uClibc configuration options such as + DO_XSI_MATH, UCLIBC_HAS_OBSOLETE_BSD_SIGNAL and + UCLIBC_SV4_DEPRECATED are needed if one wants to build the + +ltp-testsuite+ package with uClibc. You need to either a glibc or + eglibc based toolchain, or enable the appropriate options in the + uClibc configuration. + +* The +xfsprogs+ package does not build with the default uClibc + configuration used by the Buildroot toolchain backend. You need to + either a glibc or eglibc based toolchain, or enable the appropriate + options in the uClibc configuration. + +* The +mrouted+ package does not build with the default uClibc + configuration used by the Buildroot toolchain backend. You need to + either a glibc or eglibc based toolchain, or enable the appropriate + options in the uClibc configuration. + +* The +libffi+ package is not supported on the SuperH 2 and ARC + architectures. + +* The +prboom+ package triggers a compiler failure with the SuperH 4 + compiler from Soucery CodeBench, version 2012.09. + diff --git a/docs/manual/manual.txt b/docs/manual/manual.txt index 9685667..9ae658e 100644 --- a/docs/manual/manual.txt +++ b/docs/manual/manual.txt @@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ include::working-with.txt[] include::faq-troubleshooting.txt[] +include::known-issues.txt[] + include::going-further.txt[] include::developer-guide.txt[]