[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/wvstreams: add patch to fix build with C99 compilers

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Sat Sep 24 16:14:29 UTC 2016



On 24-09-16 10:47, Jörg Krause wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Romain,
> 
> Am 24. September 2016 10:31:57 MESZ, schrieb Romain Naour <romain.naour at gmail.com>:
>> Hi Jörg,
>>
>> Le 23/09/2016 à 23:42, Jörg Krause a écrit :
[snip]
>>> Note, that wvstreams is not maintained anymore. Last activity was on
>>> Github was 2011, the current version 1.6.1 dates from 2009.
>>
>> Thanks for this investigation and the fix.
>> Are you using wvstreams or it's for the sake of autobuilders ?
> 
> No, I am not using wvstreams and yes, it is for the sake of autobuilders.
> 
>> I'm wondering if we should deprecate this package ?
>> Last time I looked at it, I disabled it for musl based toolchains.
>>
>> Thoughts ?
> 
> I am not sure which policy Buildroot follows here, but I would like to know.

 This is precisely the kind of situation where we start considering deprecating
a package.


 In this case, wvstreams only exists for the sake of wvdial. I don't know of
many alternatives however. modem-manager is somewhat bloaty, and chat + ppp.conf
is a lot more difficult.


 Adding Simon, the original contributor, for a second opinion.

 Regards,
 Arnout

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