[Buildroot] [PATCH] Binutils: ARC: Fix build failures if makeinfo is missing

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Mon Jun 6 21:34:53 UTC 2016


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:

 > Hello,
 > On Mon, 06 Jun 2016 21:36:54 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

 >> > Signed-off-by: Zakharov Vlad <vzakhar at synopsys.com>  
 >> 
 >> Committed, thanks.

 > Why?

It was fixing autobuilder issues and seemed like a sensible fix that
could be upstreamed. Looking again, I do see that it patched Makefile.in
and not Makefile.am, so that's not too nice though.

 > This problem also exists for other versions of binutils, and also for
 > gdb. And we have a patch series from Romain Naour sitting in patchwork
 > for several weeks.

 > I don't know if Zlad's version is better or not than Romain's version.
 > But at least Romain's version was handling all binutils and gdb
 > versions, without patching directly Makefile.in files. So at first
 > sight, it looked a lot better than Zlad's version.

Ok, we can always revert if it isn't needed any more once Romain's
series is applied.

-- 
Venlig hilsen,
Peter Korsgaard 



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