Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH] stress-ng: remove unused libaio dependency

[Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>]

On Tue, Jul 07, 2026 at 07:36:51PM +0200, Sven Püschel wrote:
> Remove the unused libaio dependency. While stress-ng can utilize libaio,
> it currently isn't selected in the libaio.make. Therefore just drop the
> dependency for now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sven Püschel <s.pueschel@pengutronix.de>
> 
> ---
> Experienced this on an aarch64 BSP. I've tried to add HAVE_LIB_AIO and
> even HAVE_LIBAIO_H to libaio.make, but it didn't cause stress-ng to link
> against libaio. The source code indicates that the relevant parts also
> need HAVE_SYSCALL enabled. Therefore decided to just remove the libaio
> dependency instead of trying to get it to work (and potentially breaking
> some platforms/configurations).

In my test, the _header_ is used. stress-ng just does not use any symbols
from libaio.

Michael

> ---
>  rules/stress-ng.in | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/rules/stress-ng.in b/rules/stress-ng.in
> index 426d58cc8..ae98a7b78 100644
> --- a/rules/stress-ng.in
> +++ b/rules/stress-ng.in
> @@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ config STRESS_NG
>  	prompt "stress-ng"
>  	select GCCLIBS_ATOMIC
>  	select LIBC_CRYPT
> -	select LIBAIO
>  	select LIBBSD
>  	select LIBJPEG
>  	select XXHASH
> -- 
> 2.47.3
> 
> 
> 

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