[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] package/linux-headers: use host-make

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Tue Apr 11 13:07:42 UTC 2023


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

 > On 11/04/2023 14:27, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
 >>>>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> writes:
 >> > On 07/04/2023 16:19, Oleg Lyovin wrote:
 >> >> GNU make package from the host machine may be too old,
 >> >> so use the one built by buildroot.
 >> >> Signed-off-by: Oleg Lyovin <ovlevin at sberdevices.ru>
 >> >  Applied both to master, after reworking the commit messages to
 >> >  reflect that this was introduced in Linux 6.2.
 >> Thanks. Maybe time has come to also require make >= 3.82 globally in
 >> Buildroot?  It was released almost 10 years ago by now:
 >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2010-07/msg00023.html

 >  The only reason to do that is to avoid needing to make such changes
 >  in the future for packages that require make >= 3.82, right? That
 > would only help for Linux - u-boot and glibc require make >= 4.0. For
 > ti-k3-r5-loader the commit message doesn't specify what the minimum
 > version is, but I can imagine it's also 4.0. And I expect in the
 > future the minimum is going to be more likely to be 4.0 than 3.82.

Sure, I would just be a step towards requiring make 4.0 (which is also
10 years old by now:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/make-w32/2013-10/msg00021.html), but
true - We can also just consider going straight from 3.81 to 4.0.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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