Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] kconfig/lxdialog: fix check() with GCC14

From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
To: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@gmail.com>,
	Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>,
	buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] kconfig/lxdialog: fix check() with GCC14
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 22:50:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZhWp-ftUZj1_npHh@landeda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240409214656.721dc7c3@windsurf>

Thomas, Petr, All,

On 2024-04-09 21:46 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot spake thusly:
> On Mon, 8 Apr 2024 23:38:07 +0200
> Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > FYI I gave up kconfig update after big rewrites in the Linux kernel
> > made by Masahiro Yamada (the new kbuild and kconfig maintainer), because the
> > code changes were quite big but kconfig in Buildroot is IMHO not missing any
> > significant usability function. But I can be wrong, Thomas let me know if you
> > miss something significant which would justify the update. Obviously we would
> > get some fixes, but also major rewrite, which would likely require changes in
> > other parts of Buildroot.
> 
> I have no idea what are the new interesting features that have been
> added in the upstream scripts/kconfig/ (if any). However, keeping our
> support/kconfig/ reasonably up-to-date is not only about new features,
> it's also about staying compatible with reasonably recent
> libraries/tools (more recent ncurses, Gtk, Qt, more recent GCC, like
> this issue illustrates).

The kernel's kconfig has dropped the possibility to include files from
within a choice, so what we're doing now in a few places will not work;
  - toolchain/toolchain-external/Config.in
  - package/openssl/Config.in

and so on...

Unless that was reverted upstream...

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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