[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/openocd: fix autobuild failure

[Samuel Martin]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Luca Ceresoli <lucaceresoli77 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Sam,
>
> On 07/02/2017 05:02, Sam Bobroff wrote:
>> See the included package patch for a description of the issue, which
>> causes the doc target to be rebuilt, which fails and breaks the build.
>> Fix it by removing the doc subdirectory from the build.
>>
>> Fixes
>> http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/53ed571327c814a23fcf03c7ad5bcd551b6732a6
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff at au1.ibm.com>
>> ---
>>
>>  package/openocd/0003-disable-docs.patch | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 37 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100644 package/openocd/0003-disable-docs.patch
>>
>> diff --git a/package/openocd/0003-disable-docs.patch b/package/openocd/0003-disable-docs.patch
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000..36fb152ee
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/package/openocd/0003-disable-docs.patch
>> @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
>> +doc: do not build
>> +
>> +Due to the way the version file is handled by a special script that encodes the
>> +file modification time as a human readable *local* time value, a clean build
>> +will sometimes, depending on the local time zone, attempt to re-build the
>> +documentation, which may fail.
>> +
>> +We don't want the documentation so fix this by disabling it.
>
> Can't we instead add a --disable-docs flag to openocd and upstream it?
> The patch you proposed is not for upstream, so we'd have to carry it in
> Buildroot potentially forever.

I think some people will appreciate this ;)
This patch [1] is in the github mirror, but never got in gerrit for
proper submission (shame on me!).

>
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> Luca
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[1] https://github.com/ntfreak/openocd/pull/4/commits/2c0cc66d5388e07679ac9f07c1ce0f8469931f02

Regards,

-- 
Samuel