Bug 87261

Summary:	lighttpd(-1.3.13) with uclibc
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	David Holm (RETIRED) <dholm>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	www-servers Herd (OBSOLETE) <www-servers+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal	CC:	embedded
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description David Holm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-30 05:34:57 UTC

The configure script of lighttpd will detect sys/sendfile.h on Gentoo/uclibc systems, but this feature is not supported by uclibc. The binary produced will not be able to transfer files (including web objects such as images).

By adding the following line after econf in the ebuild it will work on uclibc systems:
use uclibc && sed -i -e "s/^#define\ HAVE_SENDFILE.*$//" config.h

This solution was suggested to me by 'weigon_' on #lighttpd@irc.freenode.net

Comment 1 solar (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-30 06:14:31 UTC

Builds for me.
[ebuild   R   ] www-servers/lighttpd-1.3.10-r1  -ldap -mysql -php -ssl -xattr 0 kB

uclibc also provides this symbol and include file. (perhaps some other error your encountering) ?

Comment 2 solar (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-30 08:20:46 UTC

David said on IRC that it builds for him but the runtime is what seems to fail.
I know uClibc provides the stubs to the kernel sendfile()
So this is probably a kernel problem.

Comment 3 David Holm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-31 11:44:00 UTC

I'll see if I can investigate this further next week.

Comment 4 Aaron Walker (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-08-26 02:02:11 UTC

Please see if you are still experiencing this with 1.4.x

Comment 5 Aaron Walker (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-09-14 12:33:52 UTC

Please reopen when have some more info for me.