[Buildroot] [2/2] package/glibc: bump to version 2.28

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Wed Aug 15 11:40:41 UTC 2018


Hello,

On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 09:19:53 +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:

> Romain Naour writes:
> > https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-08/msg00003.html  
> 
> This announcement says:
> 
>   GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
> 
> autobuilders now show that:
> 
>   http://autobuild.buildroot.net/?reason=glibc-glibc-2.28
> 
> Since glibc is a fundamental package, does that mean we need to bump the
> make version requirement to 4.0 (current requirement is 3.81)? Maybe
> build host-make on older hosts?

Building host-make on machines that don't have make >= 4.0 sounds like
a good approach to me. And of course, we only do this as a dependency
of glibc.

Best regards,

Thomas
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