[Buildroot] Analysis of defconfig build failures

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 10:12:16 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

>  > I.e. there is preprocessing of the dts file, then the actual
>  > compilation via dtc.
>  > With this in mind, I actually don't think that this behavior is
>  > negatively impacted by my changes. I now think it is a failure on top
>  > of the original failures. When I undo my changes prior to running this
>  > command, then the same errors occur. And since no other binary than
>  > the compiler (preprocessor) and the prebuilt dtc is used, there cannot
>  > be other impact of the changes I did to two header files.  
> 
>  > Nevertheless, this defconfig still does not build correctly.  
> 
> :/
> 
> I guess giving the timing, the best solution for 2018.08 is to simply
> revert the dtc bump?

Is this fixing all issues we have, without introducing other problems ?
If so, then I'm fine with a revert of the dtc bump, of course.

Thomas
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