[Buildroot] Analysis of build results for 2015-08-18

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Brendan Heading,

On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 12:38:33 +0100, Brendan Heading wrote:
> > Leaving things broken in the autobuilders is annoying. For two reasons:
> >
> >  1/ Due to this Busybox failure on SPARC, many SPARC builds abort at
> >     this point, and we don't see other SPARC failures.
> >
> >  2/ It leaves some "noise" in the build results, and due to this it's
> >     hard to distinguish the build failures that should be investigated
> >     from the ones that are already analyzed.
> 
> Understood. Would you like me to put together a "disable libtirpc on
> SPARC" patch then ?

I think we'll just ship 2015.08 with the SPARCv8 breakage on libtirpc.
I must admit I'm not sure what to do with SPARCv8. Should we simply
deprecate it, and if someone complain, ask that someone to help
maintaining the platform?

Thomas
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