[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] bootutils: fix build with glibc 2.28

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Sun Sep 30 08:43:21 UTC 2018


>>>>> "Romain" == Romain Naour <romain.naour at gmail.com> writes:

 > Hi Fabrice,
 > Le 29/09/2018 à 13:15, Fabrice Fontaine a écrit :
 >> Replace first patch which was adding sys/types.h to fix musl issue by a
 >> patch adding sys/sysmacros to fix build with glibc 2.28
 >> 
 >> Fixes:
 >> - http://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/c26761663a764a2eb7af54316a6dc78bd01490fb
 >> 
 >> Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice at gmail.com>

 > Why we want to keep Bootutils in Buildroot?
 > Upstream is dead since 2009 and "BootUtils is a collection of utilities to
 > facilitate booting of modern Kernel 2.6 based systems"

 > Maybe it's time to remove this package?

Fine by me. It is not listed in DEVELOPERS and the original contributor
has not been active in Buildroot for close to 10 years.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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