[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/8] Remove uClibc version selection: always use uClibc-ng
Romain Naour
romain.naour at gmail.com
Sun Jan 24 20:25:50 UTC 2016
Hi Thomas,
Le 18/01/2016 21:24, Thomas Petazzoni a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> Since April 2015, the uClibc-ng has done very regular releases of the
> uClibc C library, and is the de-facto active replacement of the now
> defunct uClibc project.
>
> uClibc 0.9.33 is going to be 4 years old in the coming months, and we
> already need 50+ patches to make it somewhat usable.
>
> It is therefore time to simply offer uClibc-ng as our only supported
> uClibc version, and remove the options of using uClibc 0.9.33 and
> uClibc-snapshot. To achieve this, this patch series:
>
> - Removes references to the BR2_UCLIBC_VERSION_SNAPSHOT option from
> various packages: libunwind, lttng-babeltrace, mongrel2, vlc and
> samba4. The dependencies of those packages are updated, and will
> now allow in many cases to build such packages with uClibc-ng, and
> sometimes with musl when possible.
>
> - Removes the uClibc 0.9.33 and uClibc snapshot options.
>
> - Removes the support for version selection in the uclibc package.
You can also remove
package/util-linux/0003-c.h-define-mkostemp-for-older-version-of-uClibc.patch
which was added for uClibc 0.9.33.
https://git.busybox.net/buildroot/commit/?id=a5a4b38c6a43d9da46cdd0244b1aae07d7bcce5c
Best regards,
Romain
>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas
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