[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/racehound: fix comment

[Yann E. MORIN]

Arnout, All,

On 2016-04-12 23:27 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> On 04/12/16 19:20, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> >racehound requires a kernel >= 3.14 to be built and to run.
> 
>  If I understand correctly, it actually doesn't need kernel headers >= 3.14,
> but only a kernel >= 3.14...

Indeed, the dependency on headerrs >= 3.14 is wrong.

I'll send an updated patch to fix that.

> >However, the current conditions on the corresponding comments are wrong:
> >   - the comment about the kernel has a dependency on the requested
> >     headers
> >   - the comment on the toolchain features does not have this condition.
> >
> >Thus, the comments are not shown/hidden under the appropriate
> >conditions, like in this situation:
> >   - toolchain with headers < 3.14 (e.g. Sourcery CodeBench x86/x86_64
> >     2012.09 with headers 3.5)
> >   - kernel 4.5 enabled
> 
>  So in this configuration, it should actually be possible to build racehound.
>  If this is true, I would remove the dependency on kernel headers.

I just checked those configurations:
  - headers 3.14, kernel 4.5 => OK
  - headers 3.5, kernel 4.5  => OK

> >this comment is shown:
> >     racehound needs an Linux kernel >= 3.14 to be built
> 
>  But I would keep this comment if !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_3_14, to
> make sure the user realizes that he needs a >= 3.14 kernel. He can still
> select the package if the headers ar < 3.14, so if he knows what he's doing
> it will be fine.

I respectfully disagree. There is no corelation between the headers and
the running kernel (except running kernel mnust be more recent than
headers).

Besides, this would be misleading in the other way: if headers are 3.14+
but kernel is 3.13-, the comment wouild not be shown.

>  Even better would be
> 	depends on !BR2_LINUX_KERNEL || \
> 		(BR2_PACKAGE_RACEHOUND && !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_3_14)
> i.e. only show the >= 3.14 warning in case you actually selected racehound.

Again, headers_atl_least_X_Y does not represent the running kernel, so I
find it a bit misleading that we use that option to show/hide the
comment.

> >So, this is incorrect, because:
> >  1- a kernel >= 3.14 is indeed to be built
> >  2- the headers version mismatch is not reported
> >
> >Fix that by moving the dependency on the kernel headers to the
> >appropriate comment and enhance it.
> >
> >Since there is no way we can know the kernel version to be built, we can
> >not add such a condition; still, we leave the kernel message as-is.
> 
>  It can be tested in a pre-configure hook. But the cmake rules already check
> for that, so there's no need to do it again in buildroot.

No, it does not check for it since we pass it -DKERNEL_VERSION_OK=YES

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

> >Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> >---
> >  package/racehound/Config.in | 7 ++++---
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/package/racehound/Config.in b/package/racehound/Config.in
> >index 9f1011b..53e39a8 100644
> >--- a/package/racehound/Config.in
> >+++ b/package/racehound/Config.in
> >@@ -27,10 +27,11 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_RACEHOUND
> >  	  https://github.com/winnukem/racehound
> >
> >  comment "racehound needs an Linux kernel >= 3.14 to be built"
> >-	depends on !BR2_LINUX_KERNEL || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_3_14
> >+	depends on !BR2_LINUX_KERNEL
> >  	depends on BR2_i386 || BR2_x86_64
> >
> >-comment "racehound needs a uClibc or (e)glibc toolchain w/ C++, wchar, dynamic library"
> >+comment "racehound needs a uClibc or (e)glibc toolchain w/ C++, wchar, dynamic library, headers >= 3.14"
> >  	depends on BR2_i386 || BR2_x86_64
> >  	depends on !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP || !BR2_USE_WCHAR || BR2_STATIC_LIBS \
> >-		|| !(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_UCLIBC || BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC)
> >+		|| !(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_UCLIBC || BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC) \
> >+		|| !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_3_14
> 
>  Just to be clear: I think this comment shouldn't be changed at all.
> 
>  Assuming, of course, that my assumption is correct that it has no
> particular dependency on kernel headers.
> 
>  Regards,
>  Arnout
> 
> >
> 
> 
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