[Buildroot] Suggestion to "support/scripts/apply-patches.sh: do not apply patches with renames"

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Romain, All,

On 2021-05-15 12:57 +0200, Romain Naour spake thusly:
> Le 15/05/2021 ? 11:40, Yann E. MORIN a ?crit?:
> > On the Ubuntu side (as another data point), the odest LTS is Trusty,
> > 14.04, and it has patch 2.7.1.
> Based on the host gcc requirement on gcc 4.9 (released the 22 April 2014), we
> already don't support such old distro. Ubuntu LTS Trusty provide gcc 4.8.

Ah, I don't thinks so. We still only require gcc >= 4.8:

  - the manual still references gcc 4.8, even the nightly snapshots:
        http://nightly.buildroot.org/#requirement

        2.1. Mandatory packages
        ...
        * gcc (version 4.8 or any later)
        * g++ (version 4.8 or any later) 

  - support/dependencies/dependencies.sh still only checks for gcc >=
    4.8:
        if [ $COMPILER_MAJOR -lt 4 -o $COMPILER_MAJOR -eq 4 -a $COMPILER_MINOR -lt 8 ] ; then

The last time (that I remember of) when we bumped our host gcc
requirement, was with those commits, dated October 2020:

  * 5ee815ab6a docs/manual: bump our gcc/g++ requirements to 4.8
  * 55fc80260b packages: host gcc >= 4.8 is now guaranteed

I could not find a reference to requiring host gcc >= 4.9 in the commit
logs...

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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