[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] netcat-openbsd: depends on linux-headers >= 3.12

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Nov 30 19:36:25 UTC 2017


Hello,

On Thu, 30 Nov 2017 19:10:49 +0200, Baruch Siach wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 10:24:35PM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > Since you have looked at a lot of different kernel headers related
> > issues, what do you think about this one below?  
> 
> Makes sense. We have faced the same issue with musl and iproute2. In each of 
> these cases we used different solutions because both provide their own 
> headers. For the simple case, it is reaonable to limit build to toolchains 
> with newer kernel headers providing libc-compat.h.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>

Well, what bothers me is that netcat is a fairly simple tool, so I find
it odd that we restrict it to >= 3.12.

Thomas
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