[Buildroot] Analysis of defconfig build failures

[Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com> writes:

 > Hello,
 > On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 21:09:19 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

 >> >    The problem is fixed in U-Boot 2018.01 but present in 2017.11.
 >> >    However, we have a number of vendor-provided U-Boot, and it's not
 >> >    necessarily easy to upgrade all defconfigs to use at least 2018.01.  
 >> 
 >> Perhaps we could backport the changes and add as patches for the
 >> affected defconfigs?

 > The problem is that it will still affect anyone doing a U-Boot build,
 > outside of the defconfigs.

Ok. Is this a new failure introduced by something we do
wrong/differently in Buildroot, or just something that is broken by
building with newer compilers?


 >> What is needed? Just the libfdt.h -> linux/libfdt.h you reported?

 > I am not sure what is needed exactly.

Ok :/


 >> Sorry, I haven't looked at that series yet. If various packages start
 >> needing this, and there aren't any version dependencies, then requiring
 >> bison and flex is imho not a big problem (E.G. they are generally
 >> available on all distributions).

 > We've been having a discussion on this in a separate thread (search
 > "[2/3,v3] linux: kconfig needs host-{flex, bison} to build the
 > configurators ").

Ok, thanks.


 >> >    sheevaplug_defconfig
 >> >    https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/jobs/88314946  
 >> 
 >> I still have this board somewhere. I'll take a look at bumping u-boot.

 > OK, thanks!

You're welcome, I'm doing a build with v2018.07 as we speak.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard