From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ulf Samuelsson Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:20:48 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] _VER vs. _VERSION breakage References: <20070715104024.GB4096@aon.at> <1184615647.18357.27.camel@elrond.sweden.atmel.com> <20070723095243.GC6597@aon.at> Message-ID: <00d001c7cd13$281695f0$dcc4af0a@atmel.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>> Your change to use _VERSION broke at least acpid. Please double-check >>> that all packages that you touched in this patch still build fine and >>> repair. >> >>Here is the result of trying to build most available packages >>in buildroot for ARM. (I build for ARM generic (not using WCHAR)). > > I will revert that _VERSION vs. _VER patch since it breaks a couple of > packages. >>A lot of the packages does not build for ARM, > > Could be. For changes like _VER vs. _VERSION, a quick check with an x86 > build before and after such a change would have been the proper thing to > do, imho. > >>but if you can download the package, decompress it >>in build_ and then configure or patch it, >>then the VERSION patch is OK for this package. > >>At least some of the packages seems to require the uClibc is >>built with WCHAR. We should probably identify these packages >>and hide them during configuration if WCHAR is not enabled. > > Yes, this is a completely different issue, though. > >> >>Some packages like ACPID does not build for ARM >>but I think I got that right anyway, even if I did not try that >>specific package. >>Maybe someone building x86 can report the few packages >>I have problems with on ARM? > > No need, i'll revert said patch and let those who want such a patch to > go in check if they break something. > > Breaking the build for cosmetic reasons is not a sensible thing to do. > It is not only for cosmetic things alone. Instead of reverting the patch, I can check on x86 instead today and fix if neccessary. Please tell me which packages are broken. acpid wass, but that should be fixed by now. Best Regards Ulf Samuelsson