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From: Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>
To: Trevor Woerner <trevor.woerner@linaro.org>
Cc: openembedded-core <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3 v2] sanity.bbclass: Check for the known broken version of make
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 12:02:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51D0569A.7050705@balister.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALmOhgk+NG_aqEwbtKXm0KTWGEim9z5bCpCE8sHiovsaDiTPew@mail.gmail.com>

On 06/30/2013 11:56 AM, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> On 27 June 2013 10:08, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com> wrote:
>> See GNU Savannah bug 30612 -- make 3.82 is known to be broken.
>>
>> A number of vendors are providing a modified version, so checking
>> for just the version string is not enough.  We also need to check
>> if the patch for the issue has been applied.  We use a modified
>> version of the reproduced to check for the issue.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>
>> ---
>> +
>> +        if status != 0:
>> +            return "Your version of make 3.82 is broken. Please revert to 3.81 or install a patched version.\n"
> 
> 
> Instead of returning an error and asking the user to manually update
> their own 'make', wouldn't it be better if bitbake simply built its
> own known-to-be-working -native version instead? In this way a good,
> working version of 'make' could be installed in a potential SDK's
> sysroot as well?

Is the broken version good enough to build a working version?

Philip


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  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-30 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-27 14:08 [PATCH 1/3 v2] sanity.bbclass: Check for the known broken version of make Mark Hatle
2013-06-27 14:21 ` Burton, Ross
2013-06-28 10:20   ` Paul Barker
2013-06-28 13:13     ` Mark Hatle
2013-06-28 15:11       ` Paul Barker
2013-06-28 18:22         ` Paul Barker
2013-06-30 15:56 ` Trevor Woerner
2013-06-30 16:02   ` Philip Balister [this message]
2013-06-30 22:55     ` Trevor Woerner
2013-07-08 16:55     ` Mark Hatle
2013-07-09 15:14       ` Trevor Woerner
2013-07-19  9:41         ` Paul Eggleton
2013-07-21 13:27           ` Trevor Woerner

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