[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] toolchain/gdb: fixup version strings
Peter Korsgaard
jacmet at uclibc.org
Wed Oct 5 14:57:53 UTC 2011
>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at anciens.enib.fr> writes:
Yann> The gdb tarballs have been re-released after a GPL compliance
Yann> issue was found:
Yann> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2011-09/msg00030.html
Yann> So all versions were re-packaged.
Yann> In the process, an 'a' was appended to the version strings, and
Yann> unlike the binutils people, the gdb folks are not inclined in
Yann> providing legacy symlinks:
Yann> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2011-09/msg00036.html
Yann> So, this patch fixes the issue by renaming version strings. It is to be
Yann> noted that, although the versions got bumped to include an 'a' at the end,
Yann> the directory contained in the tarball is still named after the version
Yann> string without the 'a'. For example:
Yann> - old version : 6.6
Yann> - new version : 6.6a
Yann> - tarball name : gdb-6.6a.tar.bz2
Yann> - directory name : gdb-6.6/
Yann> In fact, it does not pose any problem for buildroot, as the extract process
Yann> explicitly mkdirs the directory to extract into, *and* strips the first level
Yann> of the tree extracted from the tarball.
Committed with minor changes to apply to head + I prefer to not change
the config symbols, only the tarball versions.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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