Re: [PATCH v16 03/20] libtasn1: disable code not needed in grub

[Daniel Kiper]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 03:10:56PM +0800, Gary Lin via Grub-devel wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 07, 2024 at 04:14:54PM +0200, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 07, 2024 at 11:07:31AM +0800, Gary Lin wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 05:18:32PM +0200, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> > > > On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 01:06:55PM +0800, Gary Lin wrote:
> > > > > From: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
> > > > >
> > > > > We don't expect to be able to write ASN.1, only read it,
> > > > > so we can disable some code.
> > > > >
> > > > > Do that with #if 0/#endif, rather than deletion. This means
> > > > > that the difference between upstream and grub is smaller,
> > > > > which should make updating libtasn1 easier in the future.
> > > > >
> > > > > With these exclusions we also avoid the need for minmax.h,
> > > > > which is convenient because it means we don't have to
> > > > > import it from gnulib.
> > > >
> > > > This and two following patches should be put in separate files in the
> > > > grub-core/lib/libtasn1-patches directory. The gnulib is good example
> > > > how it should be done.
> > > >
> > > Those patches are added to libtasn1-patches in another patch with the
> > > title "libtasn1: Add the documentation" which mentions how libtasn1 is
> > > updated.
> >
> > OK, then use them as gnulib does. Of course add the patches one by one
> > to the GRUB source code.
> >
> Does it mean that I should use bootstrap to check out libtasn1 and then
> apply the patches?

No, for time being it is enough to have static libtasn1 with the patches
applied on top of that lib during bootstrap run.

Daniel