Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Living w/o forks

Yes, currently I'm living without forks. I'm (again) trying to restore OE support for Blackfin platform in a clean way.

One of the major problems is that there is no fork() on Blackfin. And lot's of software expects to have it. E.g. even to build u-boot, via dependancy chain u-boot -> mtd-utils -> e2fsprogs-libs -> util-linux-ng -> udev you get stron dependancy on fork(). I see no way to resolve this, other than build uClibc with UCLIBC_HAS_STUBS, enabling stub for fork().

More on this later

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