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

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Wed Aug 15 19:16:00 UTC 2018


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> writes:

 > 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.

Agreed, it is imho too early to require make >= 4.0 globally.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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