[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] attr: bump to version 2.4.47

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue May 28 14:13:03 UTC 2013


Dear Spenser Gilliland,

On Tue, 28 May 2013 09:02:56 -0500, Spenser Gilliland wrote:

> I investigated this issue a while ago for fun and I don't think that
> patch ever worked.  Many (maybe all) of the autobuild failures on acl
> were because there was no static library of attr to link against.

Are you insinuating that my patch was not correct? :-) Come on, this
never happens to me!

If you look at 5ad2879a8bca386fa5c256a4286ccc928601cc1a, the purpose of
the patch was not really to fix *other* libraries linking against the
static version of attr, but rather fix the attr build process *itself*
which was crashing when BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB=y.

See
http://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/58a3d4113172813183d43fddc1248b35bd0c4994/build-end.log

That said, if other packages were still not able to link statically
against attr after that patch, then clearly it means that the patch was
not sufficient.

Thomas
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