[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 13:46 +0200, Romain Naour spake thusly:
> Le 15/05/2021 ? 13:19, Yann E. MORIN a ?crit?:
> > 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:
> 
> It seems the BR2_HOST_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_8 symbol has been removed with commit
> 55fc80260b packages: host gcc >= 4.8 is now guaranteed.

Yes, the removal was on purpose: since gcc >= 4.8 is not guaranteed
(with a check in dependencies.sh), BR2_HOST_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_8 would
always be 'y'; there is no advantage to having a variable always set
to 'y', so we dropped it.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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