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| author | Carl Dong <accounts@carldong.me> | 2019-04-19 17:56:31 -0400 |
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| committer | Carl Dong <accounts@carldong.me> | 2019-05-28 11:03:37 -0400 |
| commit | 8541cbea29f96b756cfb5ec1894d818b4c870924 (patch) | |
| tree | e325e0c6651dee8068b9a60b8bb9d5177123856f /depends/packages/libXext.mk | |
| parent | 0e752637a26cf75187864a466db9a92540a2d3c8 (diff) | |
depends: libX*: --disable-malloc0returnsnull in conf
Diffstat (limited to 'depends/packages/libXext.mk')
| -rw-r--r-- | depends/packages/libXext.mk | 25 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/depends/packages/libXext.mk b/depends/packages/libXext.mk index cd59b8c5d8..77f32a340e 100644 --- a/depends/packages/libXext.mk +++ b/depends/packages/libXext.mk @@ -6,7 +6,30 @@ $(package)_sha256_hash=b518d4d332231f313371fdefac59e3776f4f0823bcb23cf7c7305bfb5 $(package)_dependencies=xproto xextproto libX11 libXau define $(package)_set_vars - $(package)_config_opts=--disable-shared + # A number of steps in the autoconfig process implicitly assume that the build + # system and the host system are the same. For example, library components + # want to build and run test programs to determine the behavior of certain + # host system elements. This is clearly impossible when crosscompiling. To + # work around these issues, the --enable-malloc0returnsnull (or + # --disable-malloc0returnsnull, depending on the host system) must be passed + # to configure. + # -- https://www.x.org/wiki/CrossCompilingXorg/ + # + # Concretely, between the releases of libXext 1.3.2 and 1.3.3, + # XORG_CHECK_MALLOC_ZERO from xorg-macros was changed to use the autoconf + # cache, expecting cross-compilation environments to seed this cache as there + # is no single correct value when cross compiling (think uclibc, musl, etc.). + # You can see the actual change in commit 72fdc868b56fe2b7bdc9a69872651baeca72 + # in the freedesktop/xorg-macros repo. + # + # As a result of this change, if we don't seed the cache and we don't use + # either --{en,dis}able-malloc0returnsnull, the AC_RUN_IFELSE block has no + # optional action-if-cross-compiling argument and configure prints an error + # message and exits as documented in the autoconf manual. Prior to this + # commit, the AC_RUN_IFELSE block had an action-if-cross-compiling argument + # which set the more pessimistic default value MALLOC_ZERO_RETURNS_NULL=yes. + # This is why the flag was not required prior to libXext 1.3.3. + $(package)_config_opts=--disable-static --disable-malloc0returnsnull endef define $(package)_preprocess_cmds |