[Buildroot] SDL2+directfb combo does not work as built by buildroot-2018.02.3

[Peter Thompson]

I checked with Sam - this is his note back...

"I'm not sure, but I think we're going to start on it soon. We have a bunch
of good improvements in 2.0.9 for folks."



On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 8:35 AM, Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>
wrote:

> >>>>> "Peter" == Peter Thompson <peter.macleod.thompson at gmail.com> writes:
>
>  > Hi Peter
>  > My original plan was to wait for the next SDL2 release thereby allowing
>  > SDL2 to fix itself before updating the SDL2_VERSION in  buildroot.
>
>  > Otherwise we have to change buildroot SDL2_VERSION to  point to the
>  > temporary patched SDL2 source for download:
>  > http://www.libsdl.org/tmp/SDL-2.0.zip
>  > OR
>  > somehow change buildroot to download this patch and apply it to the
>  > downloaded SDL2-2.0.8 before compiling (I am not sure how to do this in
>  > buildroot).
>
> .. Or simply include the hg commit as a .patch file in the package.
>
>  > Then we would need to re-change this all back when the new release of
> SDL2
>  > incorporates this patch.
>
> Correct.
>
> Do you know when sdl2-2.0.9 is planned? 2.0.8 is what we are using both
> for 2018.02 (the current long term support version), 2018.05 (the
> current release) and master (what will very soon become 2018.08).
>
> --
> Bye, Peter Korsgaard
>
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