From: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin+buildroot@gmail.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 5 of 5] toolchain-external: use host-tar instead of tar to unpack toolchains
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:18:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAXf6LXMasRpJxQQ3e=mTOaK0edu5rEp2E2guV3bEnFoA70C0A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201109222202.37083.arnout@mind.be>
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 21 September 2011 12:54:55, Michael S. Zick wrote:
>> That should help keep the build environment sane, with a message
>> to the user if something is too old;
>> And should relieve the maintainers of the task of remembering to
>> "re-correct" the build system someday in the future.
>
> ?How does that help the users who are stuck on RH5? ?Buildroot would still not
> work for them (although with a clearer explanation why not), so they'd have to
> implement Thomas's patches after all.
The way I interpreted this was to add a check to dependencies.sh on
the system tar version. If it's too old, we go ahead and build our own
host-tar and use it as $(TAR). If it is recent enough, we don't change
anything.
I still need to try that out though.
Best regards,
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-23 6:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-21 6:55 [Buildroot] [PATCH 0 of 5] toolchain-external: improve support for custom toolchains Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-09-21 6:55 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1 of 5] Support URI schemes in DOWNLOAD function, when not using gentargets Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-09-21 6:55 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2 of 5] toolchain-external: allow downloading a custom toolchain Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-09-21 7:58 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2011-09-21 8:22 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-09-21 8:23 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-09-21 11:39 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2011-09-21 11:38 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2011-09-21 6:55 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 3 of 5] toolchain-external: allow specifying extra external libraries Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-09-21 7:59 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2011-09-21 8:24 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-09-22 19:07 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2011-09-21 6:55 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 4 of 5] tar: create a host version Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-09-21 6:55 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 5 of 5] toolchain-external: use host-tar instead of tar to unpack toolchains Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-09-21 8:02 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2011-09-21 8:35 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-09-21 10:54 ` Michael S. Zick
2011-09-21 12:16 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-09-22 20:02 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2011-09-23 6:18 ` Thomas De Schampheleire [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-08-02 18:33 [Buildroot] [PATCH 0 of 5] toolchain-external: support downloading custom toolchains + related misc. fixes Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-08-02 18:33 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 5 of 5] toolchain-external: use host-tar instead of tar to unpack toolchains Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-08-19 9:11 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
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