[Buildroot] [PATCH v2] package/glibc: switch to using the maintenance branch

Romain Naour romain.naour at gmail.com
Sat Oct 28 11:16:16 UTC 2017


Yann, All,

Le 28/10/2017 à 12:06, Yann E. MORIN a écrit :
> Romain, All,
> 
> On 2017-10-24 16:30 +0200, Romain Naour spake thusly:
>> From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
>>
>> glibc upstream has sued against doing regular point-releases, but they
>> do have a lot of interesting and important fixes for regressions and
>> security.
> [--SNIP--]
>> diff --git a/package/glibc/glibc.mk b/package/glibc/glibc.mk
>> index 0b8b440..d82eb07 100644
>> --- a/package/glibc/glibc.mk
>> +++ b/package/glibc/glibc.mk
>> @@ -9,9 +9,14 @@ GLIBC_VERSION =  arc-2017.09-eng010
>>  GLIBC_SITE = $(call github,foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors,glibc,$(GLIBC_VERSION))
>>  GLIBC_SOURCE = glibc-$(GLIBC_VERSION).tar.gz
>>  else
>> -GLIBC_VERSION = 2.26
>> -GLIBC_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/libc
>> -GLIBC_SOURCE = glibc-$(GLIBC_VERSION).tar.xz
>> +# Generate version string using:
>> +#   git describe --match 'glibc-*' --abbrev=40 origin/release/MAJOR.MINOR/master
>> +GLIBC_VERSION = glibc-2.26-72-g77eea8950ce5495ff033bca3465ccfd2db072ae6
> 
> And now we are up to glibc-2.26-73-g4b692dffb95ac4812b161eb6a16113d7e824982e
> 
> Yes, that's now 73 patches on top of the latest release, and there won't
> ever be a dot-release. :-(

No, It was planned on 24th October:

https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-10/msg00150.html

Best regards,
Romain

> 
> Regards,
> Yann E. MORIN.
> 
>> +# Upstream doesn't officially provide an https download link.
>> +# There is one (https://sourceware.org/git/glibc.git) but it's not reliable,
>> +# sometimes the connection time out. So use a git mirror using https.
>> +GLIBC_SITE = https://github.com/bminor/glibc.git
>> +GLIBC_SITE_METHOD = git
>>  endif
>>  
>>  GLIBC_SRC_SUBDIR = .
>> -- 
>> 2.9.5
>>
> 




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