[Buildroot] [PATCHv2 2/2] glibc: add eglibc 2.19-svnr25243 and choice menu

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sun Jun 1 12:56:00 UTC 2014


Dear Gustavo Zacarias,

On Sun, 01 Jun 2014 09:46:50 -0300, Gustavo Zacarias wrote:

> > I'd like to see a comment above this dependency that explains why we
> > have this dependency: it's not because there is no support for PowerPC
> > SPE, but only because it's broken, so a future bump to a newer version
> > of eglibc 2.19 might fix the problem.
> 
> Ok.
> For the record there are other commits in a similar vein that didn't get
> that benefit, and it's build breakage (so quite obvious to test & catch).

Yeah, might be the case. I'm not at all pretending that the rest of the
code is perfect. Just pointing out that this particular patch could be
improved by having a little comment, IMO.

Thanks!

Thomas
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