From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexey Brodkin Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 05:45:06 +0000 Subject: [Buildroot] Patchwork cleanup week #24 In-Reply-To: <4209f432-0fbd-8d44-7194-c99829f66e2e@smile.fr> References: <20160615220634.67eb8fa9@free-electrons.com> <4209f432-0fbd-8d44-7194-c99829f66e2e@smile.fr> Message-ID: <1466574249.3622.15.camel@synopsys.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hi Romain, On Sat, 2016-06-18 at 16:07 +0200, Romain Naour wrote: > Hi Thomas, Alexey, Vlad, All, > > Le 15/06/2016 ? 22:06, Thomas Petazzoni a ?crit : > > > > Hello, > > > > The previous patchwork cleanup period being over, it's time to start > > the second period, with 10 other patches. We're on June 15th, so I'll > > give people until June 30th to react on the following patches. If > > there's no reaction, like no interest from either the original > > submitter nor any other Buildroot developer, the patch will be marked > > Rejected on June 30th. > > > > If you are in To: of this e-mail, then one or several of the patches > > below have been authored by you, so you should be interested :-) > > > > Thanks, > > > > Thomas > > > > ?5. Fix for the makeinfo / missing issue, proposal from Romain > > ????http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/595041/ > > ????http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/595042/ > > ????http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/595043/ > > > > ????We need to take a decision on this one. The problem also occurs for > > ????gdb and binutils on ARC, for which we've added a custom hack > > ????recently. > > > > ????I tried to play with timestamps by touch'ing the .info files before > > ????the build, it worked with one of gdb or binutils, but failed for > > ????the other. > > > > ????So either we take Romain's approach, or we bite the bullet and add > > ????a host-makeinfo package on which we depend when gdb/binutils are > > ????fetched from Git. > > > IHMO the real problem is that binutils/gdb doesn't support --disable-docs > option. When present on the command line, this option must completely disable > the documentation (man, info, pdf etc) and let the build continue. > > It seems that this issue was already discussed back in 2007 [1]. > Last year I submitted a patch upstream to do that but it was not complete and > not tested due to autoconf version mismatch [2]. > > If we want to autoreconf binutils/gdb in Buildroot we must downgrade autoconf to > 2.64 and automake to 1.12.6. > > Alexey, Vlad, I would suggest to rework your patch [3] and add --disable-docs > option instead of testing missing 127 return value. > If you succeed, we can reject my proposal from patchwork :) Right, that's what we're looking at now. Stay tuned and patch(es) will follow :) -Alexey