From: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2] package/glibc: switch to using the maintenance branch
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 12:06:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171028100600.GB3280@scaer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171024143033.15102-1-romain.naour@gmail.com>
Romain, All,
On 2017-10-24 16:30 +0200, Romain Naour spake thusly:
> From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
>
> glibc upstream has sued against doing regular point-releases, but they
> do have a lot of interesting and important fixes for regressions and
> security.
[--SNIP--]
> diff --git a/package/glibc/glibc.mk b/package/glibc/glibc.mk
> index 0b8b440..d82eb07 100644
> --- a/package/glibc/glibc.mk
> +++ b/package/glibc/glibc.mk
> @@ -9,9 +9,14 @@ GLIBC_VERSION = arc-2017.09-eng010
> GLIBC_SITE = $(call github,foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors,glibc,$(GLIBC_VERSION))
> GLIBC_SOURCE = glibc-$(GLIBC_VERSION).tar.gz
> else
> -GLIBC_VERSION = 2.26
> -GLIBC_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/libc
> -GLIBC_SOURCE = glibc-$(GLIBC_VERSION).tar.xz
> +# Generate version string using:
> +# git describe --match 'glibc-*' --abbrev=40 origin/release/MAJOR.MINOR/master
> +GLIBC_VERSION = glibc-2.26-72-g77eea8950ce5495ff033bca3465ccfd2db072ae6
And now we are up to glibc-2.26-73-g4b692dffb95ac4812b161eb6a16113d7e824982e
Yes, that's now 73 patches on top of the latest release, and there won't
ever be a dot-release. :-(
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
> +# Upstream doesn't officially provide an https download link.
> +# There is one (https://sourceware.org/git/glibc.git) but it's not reliable,
> +# sometimes the connection time out. So use a git mirror using https.
> +GLIBC_SITE = https://github.com/bminor/glibc.git
> +GLIBC_SITE_METHOD = git
> endif
>
> GLIBC_SRC_SUBDIR = .
> --
> 2.9.5
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-28 10:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-24 14:30 [Buildroot] [PATCH v2] package/glibc: switch to using the maintenance branch Romain Naour
2017-10-28 9:55 ` Yann E. MORIN
2017-10-28 10:58 ` Romain Naour
2017-10-28 13:18 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2017-10-28 13:22 ` Yann E. MORIN
2017-10-28 10:06 ` Yann E. MORIN [this message]
2017-10-28 11:16 ` Romain Naour
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