[Buildroot] [PATCH v2] linux: add conditional patch for timeconst.pl
Peter Korsgaard
peter at korsgaard.com
Wed Feb 10 07:12:43 UTC 2016
>>>>> "gustavo" == gustavo zacarias <gustavo.zacarias at free-electrons.com> writes:
> From: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo.zacarias at free-electrons.com>
> Kernels older than 3.9 (not counting stable releases) used the
> timeconst.pl perl script for their build process.
> The problem with this script is that it used deprecated perl features,
> namely defined(@array) which was removed for the perl 5.22 release,
> causing build failure of older kernels on newer distributions.
> To fix this instead of going the hard way (moving to the new
> timeconst.bc script) use the easy way by patching timeconst.pl with an
> upstream patch used for stable releases.
> First try a dry-run on the patch to see if it applies, if it does then
> call a proper APPLY_PATCHES to it.
> Tested against an arbitrary 2.6.30 kernel (applies and builds), against
> 4.4.1 for a missing timeconst.pl (does not apply since it's missing) and
> 3.8.13 (does not apply since it's fixed already).
> Known broken distributions: fedora 23.
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo.zacarias at free-electrons.com>
> ---
> v2: rebase on top of master
Yes, I'm afraid we need this :/
Committed, thanks.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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