[Buildroot] Suggestion to "support/scripts/apply-patches.sh: do not apply patches with renames"
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sat May 15 12:01:20 UTC 2021
Romain, All,
On 2021-05-15 13:46 +0200, Romain Naour spake thusly:
> Le 15/05/2021 à 13:19, Yann E. MORIN a écrit :
> > Romain, All,
> >
> > On 2021-05-15 12:57 +0200, Romain Naour spake thusly:
> >> Le 15/05/2021 à 11:40, Yann E. MORIN a écrit :
> >>> On the Ubuntu side (as another data point), the odest LTS is Trusty,
> >>> 14.04, and it has patch 2.7.1.
> >> Based on the host gcc requirement on gcc 4.9 (released the 22 April 2014), we
> >> already don't support such old distro. Ubuntu LTS Trusty provide gcc 4.8.
> >
> > Ah, I don't thinks so. We still only require gcc >= 4.8:
>
> It seems the BR2_HOST_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_8 symbol has been removed with commit
> 55fc80260b packages: host gcc >= 4.8 is now guaranteed.
Yes, the removal was on purpose: since gcc >= 4.8 is not guaranteed
(with a check in dependencies.sh), BR2_HOST_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_8 would
always be 'y'; there is no advantage to having a variable always set
to 'y', so we dropped it.
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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