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From: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] Fix sandbox build on Ubuntu 10.04
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 23:48:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56497C46.4050801@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151116020723.GV8060@bill-the-cat>

On 11/15/2015 07:07 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 11:53:49PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
> 
>> gcc 4.4.3 (which is the default native compiler on x86-64 Ubuntu
>> 10.04) doesn't seem to like initializers for sub-fields of
>> anonymous unions. Solve this by replacing the initialization with
>> an assignment. This fixes:
>> 
>> lib/lz4_wrapper.c: In function ?ulz4fn?: lib/lz4_wrapper.c:97:
>> error: unknown field ?raw? specified in initializer
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
> 
> So Ubuntu 10.04 hit end of life this past April.  I can be
> convinced but as I'm personally staring down upgrading my 12.04
> machine I need some reason.

For some reason I though the support life was 5 years desktop and
longer for server, but it looks like 5 years was the server period. Oh
well.

I suspect this patch may still be useful though; RHEL5 is still
supported until March 31, 2017[1], and apparently has an even older
compiler (gcc 4.1.x)[2]

[1] https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata
[2] https://access.redhat.com/solutions/19458

  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-16  6:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-15  6:53 [U-Boot] [PATCH] Fix sandbox build on Ubuntu 10.04 Stephen Warren
2015-11-16  2:07 ` Tom Rini
2015-11-16  6:48   ` Stephen Warren [this message]
2015-11-16 13:07     ` Tom Rini
2015-11-16 21:07       ` Simon Glass
2015-11-18 22:36 ` [U-Boot] " Tom Rini

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