From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 20:36:25 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] netcat-openbsd: depends on linux-headers >= 3.12 In-Reply-To: <20171130171049.v2sidfmz3ybnpnwo@tarshish> References: <20171128154437.1631-1-gael.portay@savoirfairelinux.com> <20171129222435.557776c3@windsurf.home> <20171130171049.v2sidfmz3ybnpnwo@tarshish> Message-ID: <20171130203625.28575e36@windsurf.lan> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Thu, 30 Nov 2017 19:10:49 +0200, Baruch Siach wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 10:24:35PM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > > Since you have looked at a lot of different kernel headers related > > issues, what do you think about this one below? > > Makes sense. We have faced the same issue with musl and iproute2. In each of > these cases we used different solutions because both provide their own > headers. For the simple case, it is reaonable to limit build to toolchains > with newer kernel headers providing libc-compat.h. > > Reviewed-by: Baruch Siach Well, what bothers me is that netcat is a fairly simple tool, so I find it odd that we restrict it to >= 3.12. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com