From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas De Schampheleire Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:18:19 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 5 of 5] toolchain-external: use host-tar instead of tar to unpack toolchains In-Reply-To: <201109222202.37083.arnout@mind.be> References: <201109210554.57701.minimod@morethan.org> <201109222202.37083.arnout@mind.be> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Arnout Vandecappelle 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