[Buildroot] Upcoming glibc-2.31 breaks busybox, strace.

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Sun Feb 2 13:40:00 UTC 2020


>>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> writes:

Hi,

 >> In February 2020 the new release of glibc is going to happen. There are at least
 >> two packages known which latest releases
 >> fail to build with latest revision of glibc: Busybox and strace.
 >> 
 >> For "strace" there is a patch in master branch which solves the error:
 >> https://github.com/strace/strace/commit/9afd83c11cb78a04954daaedb54b20214a35ec9c
 >> 
 >> For busybox there are at least two patches required:
 >> https://git.buildroot.net/busybox/commit/?id=6937487be73cd4563b876413277a295a5fe2f32c
 >> https://git.buildroot.net/busybox/commit/?id=d3539be8f27b8cbfdfee460fe08299158f08bcd9
 >> 
 >> Should we introduce these patches now or should we wait until glibc-2.31 is
 >> introduced in buildroot?

 >  It doesn't hurt to introduce those patches now, since it's possible for people
 > to use an external toolchain with glibc-2.31. In fact, I suspect that the ARC
 > people do exactly that :-)

Yes, please send patches.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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