From: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/libpng: allow selection of older libpng versions
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2019 16:22:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190721142245.GA17009@scaer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190721154928.11db1c4f@windsurf>
Thomas, Paul, Al,
On 2019-07-21 15:49 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Sun, 7 Jul 2019 12:52:24 -0400
> Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net> wrote:
> > By allowing building an older version of libpng, we can create Buildroot
> > systems that are still binary-compatible with applications compiled with
> > older Buildroot toolchains.
> While I understand what you're trying to do, I'm not sure it's a
> reasonable goal for Buildroot to be able to provide binary
> compatibility between systems generated by different Buildroot
> versions. We regularly update libraries to their latest upstream
> versions, and sometimes they break the ABI compatibility. I don't think
> we want to enter the game of ensuring that ABI compatibility is ensured
> between Buildroot versions.
Agreed.
> If you're building a program with a given Buildroot SDK, it should be
> executed on the Buildroot system that matches that SDK.
Agreed.
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-07 16:52 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/libpng: allow selection of older libpng versions Paul Cercueil
2019-07-21 13:49 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2019-07-21 14:22 ` Yann E. MORIN [this message]
2019-07-21 16:51 ` Paul Cercueil
2019-07-21 17:15 ` Yann E. MORIN
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