On Saturday 09 April 2011 10:15, Gilles wrote: > After cross-compiling opkg for a non-MMU CPU, the linker displays > the following warning: > > ============== > ... > LINK opkg-cl > > ../libopkg/.libs/libopkg.so: warning: fork: this function is not > implemented on no-mmu systems > > Making all in tests > > CC libopkg_test.o > > LINK libopkg_test > > > ../libopkg/.libs/libopkg.a(libbb_la-gz_open.o): In function `gz_open': > > /tmp/opkg-576/libbb/gz_open.c:47: warning: fork: this function is not > implemented on no-mmu systems > ============== > > I'm told that this means that calling fork() will fail, but the > importance of this call depends on how the source code works (I guess > that means whether replacing this with vfork() is either very simple > or would require a significant rewrite): > > http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=living_without_forks > http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=porting_applications > > Does someone know more about this issue when cross-compiling opkg?
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