[systemd-devel] Integration with Buildroot (uclibc-based runtime): patches suggested

[Kay Sievers]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Tomasz Torcz <tomek at pipebreaker.pl> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 09:19:01AM -0400, Dmitry Golubovsky wrote:
>> Buildroot's toolchain by default provides runtime environment based on
>> uclibc [2] which lacks certain functionality systemd depends upon, so
>> I had to develop some workarounds. In particular, functions like
>> execvpe, posix_fallocate, mkostemp,  and %ms format are not
>> implemented.
>>
>
>> These patches are applicable against the v186 snapshot.
>>
>> I would like to hear from the systemd dev team whether there is an
>> interest in uclibc integration; we can work together on finalizing
>> these patches. If there is no such interest, patches will remain with
>> Buildroot as they currently are.
>
>   Wouldn't it be better (and beneficial to others) to implement missing
> functionality in uclibc?

Looks like. All of these functions seem generally useful and should
not be worked around in user code which relies on them.

Kay