[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/squashfs: fix build on hosts with glibc >= 2.28

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Sat Sep 1 21:16:06 UTC 2018


>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Kunze <richard.kunze at web.de> writes:

Hi,

 >> It would also be nice to add a note about the upstream status of this
 >> patch.

 > The problem here is I don't really know how to contact upstream.

 > The Buildroot makefile references 
 > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/squashfs/squashfs-tools.git but that
 > has no bug tracker or contact information for patches. The original (?)
 > site at sourceforge.net seems pretty much dead. 

 > I finally found https://github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools which seems
 > at least somewhat active, and there is already a pull request for the
 > same problem: https://github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools/pull/52

 > Would it be OK to take the buildroot patch from this pull request as
 > per Buildroot manual section 18.4?

Yes, I believe so. plougher sounds like Phillip Lougher, the original
author of squashfs, and patrickdepinguin (Thomas) is a regular buildroot
contributor.

Will you send a patch? Thanks!

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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