From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Romain Naour Date: Sat, 15 May 2021 13:46:18 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Suggestion to "support/scripts/apply-patches.sh: do not apply patches with renames" In-Reply-To: <20210515111946.GB2506@scaer> References: <87fsyopkcr.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> <20210515094010.GA2506@scaer> <20210515111946.GB2506@scaer> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Yann, All, Le 15/05/2021 ? 13:19, Yann E. MORIN a ?crit?: > Romain, All, > > On 2021-05-15 12:57 +0200, Romain Naour spake thusly: >> Le 15/05/2021 ? 11:40, Yann E. MORIN a ?crit?: >>> 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. I just noticed it while looking at this discussion... > > - the manual still references gcc 4.8, even the nightly snapshots: > http://nightly.buildroot.org/#requirement > > 2.1. Mandatory packages > ... > * gcc (version 4.8 or any later) > * g++ (version 4.8 or any later) > > - support/dependencies/dependencies.sh still only checks for gcc >= > 4.8: > if [ $COMPILER_MAJOR -lt 4 -o $COMPILER_MAJOR -eq 4 -a $COMPILER_MINOR -lt 8 ] ; then > > The last time (that I remember of) when we bumped our host gcc > requirement, was with those commits, dated October 2020: > > * 5ee815ab6a docs/manual: bump our gcc/g++ requirements to 4.8 > * 55fc80260b packages: host gcc >= 4.8 is now guaranteed > > I could not find a reference to requiring host gcc >= 4.9 in the commit > logs... Otherwise, agree gcc 4.8 should be the minimal supported version. Best regards, Romain > > Regards, > Yann E. MORIN. >