GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 792937
Please add a flag to disable seccomp support or don't error on Linux for architectures that don't support seccomp
Last modified: 2021-05-26 22:24:26 UTC
Basically the same as https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786358 The check to error out without libseccomp when on any Linux is wrong. There are plenty of architectures that do not support seccomp on Linux, e.g. alpha, hppa, ia64, sparc, m68k, nios2, riscv, SuperH (or at least still some of these, some might have grown support). Out of these we supported tracker-1.10 for alpha, ia64 and sparc, but now since tracker-1.12 and tracker-miners-2 the configure wrongly errors out when it doesn't find libseccomp - something that is not available for these architectures.
Looks like hppa (parisc) has gained support in libseccomp git master, but not yet in a release. Not sure what the state is kernel-side.
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