On Thursday 04 December 2008 17:52:33 Michael Deutschmann wrote: > One of the new configure options in uClibc-0.9.30, UCLIBC_NTP_LEGACY, > controls the ntp_gettime() and ntp_adjtime() calls, which are only used by > the NTP daemon. > > You should be aware that stock ntp-4.2.4p5, the current version, will in > fact not compile on uClibc no matter how that flag is set. > > > The problem is that ntp requires the call "__adjtimex". If __adjtimex is > not detected, the "tickadj" utility will fail to build on Linux. (It > falls back to a hack it uses on non-Linux kernels, and uClibc doesn't > supply the headers it would need for that.) > > uClibc has "adjtimex", which has identical semantics (so far as I know), > but NTP and its configure script won't use that. The two underscores are > mandatory. So to get ntpd to work on uClibc, I have to supply a shim > library that translates __adjtimex() to adjtimex(). > > The good news is that if __adjtimex() is available, NTP can be fully > functional without the ntp_???time() calls. > > > So, in the next version of uClibc, I recommend changing "adjtimex" to > "__adjtimex", and removing the ntp_???time calls entirely.
upstream ntp has a bug report already: https://support.ntp.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=769 -mike
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