[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/3] package/make: add host variant

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Mon Sep 3 21:35:25 UTC 2018



On 03/09/2018 21:55, Matthew Weber wrote:
> Romain,
> On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 2:19 PM Romain Naour <romain.naour at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Add host variant for make package since glibc 2.28 now require
>> GNU Make >= 4.0 [1].
>>
>> We have to ceate gnumake and gmake symlinks to GNU make generated by
>> Buildroot for the host. Otherwise the one provided by the host system
>> can be used instead.
>>
>> For example, the glibc build system is looking for gnumake and gmake
>> before make. See [2].
>>
>> [1] https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-08/msg00003.html
>> [2] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2018-September/229654.html
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour at gmail.com>
>> Cc: Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>
>> Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>
[snip]

> 
> I plan to give this a test tomorrow.  We have been close to sending
> something similar because of a Make 3 vs 4 issue across vintages of
> builds we've been supporting.  I wonder if there is any interest
> picking this one back into the LTS?

 Is it needed for anything else than glibc 2.28 then?

 Regards,
 Arnout


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