[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] utils/genrandconfig: drop glibc Linaro toolchain version check

[Yann E. MORIN]

James, All,

On 2024-05-31 19:17 -0600, James Hilliard spake thusly:
> It has been well over 10 years since glibc 2.14 was released, I don't
> think we need this check anymore.

To support that claim, I've added references to Debian and Ubuntu, and
when they stopped using glibc versions older than 2.14.

> The distutils module is no longer bundled with python 3.12 so this
> eliminates the need to install additional python modules under python
> 3.12.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1 at gmail.com>

Applied to master, thanks.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

> ---
>  utils/genrandconfig | 19 -------------------
>  1 file changed, 19 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/utils/genrandconfig b/utils/genrandconfig
> index b838dda34d..0889be0d43 100755
> --- a/utils/genrandconfig
> +++ b/utils/genrandconfig
> @@ -25,8 +25,6 @@ import os
>  from random import randint
>  import sys
>  import traceback
> -from distutils.version import StrictVersion
> -import platform
>  
>  
>  class SystemInfo:
> @@ -166,23 +164,6 @@ async def is_toolchain_usable(configfile, config):
>              print("      Missing: %s" % toolchainline.strip(), file=sys.stderr)
>              return False
>  
> -    # The latest Linaro toolchains on x86-64 hosts requires glibc
> -    # 2.14+ on the host.
> -    if platform.machine() == 'x86_64':
> -        if 'BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LINARO_ARM=y\n' in configlines or \
> -           'BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LINARO_AARCH64=y\n' in configlines or \
> -           'BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LINARO_AARCH64_BE=y\n' in configlines or \
> -           'BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LINARO_ARMEB=y\n' in configlines:
> -            proc = await asyncio.create_subprocess_exec(
> -                'ldd', '--version', stdout=asyncio.subprocess.PIPE)
> -            ldd_version_output, _ = await proc.communicate()
> -            if proc.returncode:
> -                return False
> -            glibc_version = ldd_version_output.decode().splitlines()[0].split()[-1]
> -            if StrictVersion('2.14') > StrictVersion(glibc_version):
> -                print("WARN: ignoring the Linaro ARM toolchains because too old host glibc", file=sys.stderr)
> -                return False
> -
>      return True
>  
>  
> -- 
> 2.34.1
> 
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