[Buildroot] [PATCH v5] package/i2c-tools: bump to version 4.0

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Hello,

On Fri, 15 Dec 2017 16:21:10 +0100, Angelo Compagnucci wrote:

> > Yes, without your patch, i.e with the current version of i2c-tools in
> > Buildroot.  
> 
> Looking at the git history, the makefile is not changed that much but,
> If I remember correctly, it had two bugs:
> 
> The first one was with parallel builds and fixed here [1] by the upstream.
> The second one was with shared libraries when BR2_STATIC_LIBS is selected.
> Imho these bugs were present before version 4.
> 
> Want we to keep version 3.1.2?

No we want to bump, but not if that introduces regressions.

> >> === 100 ===
> >> umask 0022 && make -C /home/angelo/DEV/BUILDROOT/buildroot
> >> O=/home/angelo/DEV/BUILDROOT/br_qemu_arm/. i2c-tools  
> >
> > So you built it 3 times, or 3 times my loop of 100 builds ?  
> 
> ^^^ That "=== 100 ===" means the last row of the output from your loop.
> So I run at least 3 times your loop and something more meanwhile.

OK. Weird.

> >> ls build/i2c-tools-4.0/
> >> CHANGES  COPYING.LGPL  eeprom    include  Makefile  README  tools
> >> COPYING  eeprog        eepromer  lib      py-smbus  stub    version.h
> >>
> >> Could you give me more details?  
> >
> > Well, I don't have more details to provide: I just build i2c-tools, and
> > it fails randomly.
> >
> > Perhaps I should apply and see what the autobuilders have to say, i.e
> > if they agree with you (it builds) or with me (it fails randomly).  
> 
> I hope it works!

I'd like someone else in the Buildroot community to test your patch and
see if the parallel build problems are also reproducible. Anyone
available to test Angelo's patch?

Thanks!

Thomas
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