[Buildroot] : How to add a path to environment variable ?

[Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>]

>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> writes:

 > Thomas, Manu, All,
 > On 2021-01-21 20:47 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
 >> On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 18:02:39 +0100
 >> manu f <e.fiancette@gmail.com> wrote:
 >> > Thanks for your suggestion!
 >> > in the last buildroot version, nodejs is deprecated!
 >> > So I use my own compiled version of nodejs.
 >> 
 >> Deprecated ? We definitely still have a nodejs package, and it's not
 >> deprecated at all.

 > I think Manu meant that the version of nodejs we cary is depreceated.

Or perhaps he is using an older (<ARMv6) ARM Soc, which was only
supported on the old 0.10.x series?


 > Indeed, we still have nodejs 12.20.1, which is not the latest.

 > However, it is not deprecated. 12.x is in maintenance-only now, until
 > around May 2022, which means we cary a stable version, on which people
 > can be sure no API breakage will occur; only bug fixes and security
 > fixes will be applied (in practice, only security fixes).

 > The other LTS, 14.x, will continue to receive evolutions until Oct.
 > 2021, after which it will enter maintainance-only mode. So it is
 > currently not as stable as 12.x.

 > 15.s will not be an LTS, and will disapear around end os S1 2021.

 > 16.x is not even released yet, and will be the next LTS.

 > So in the end, I would not qualify our version of being deprecated; it's
 > just not the latest LTS.

 > 12.x is stable, and a good fit I believe for our next LTS.

 > Note: I am *not* arguing for having two versions of nodejs in the tree.
 > No, no, no! ;-]

Indeed not. I would not mind if (someone actually using nodejs) would
send a patch to bump to the 14.x series, but preferably ASAP so we can
have it 2021.02.x.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard