[Buildroot] [PATCH] protobuf: bump to 2.6.1

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Steven,

On Wed, 4 Nov 2015 08:58:16 -0800, Steven Noonan wrote:

> > Thanks for pointing those out. I'll take a look.
> 
> One of the threads I found is confusing. It bumped protobuf to 2.6.1
> but also enabled building for PowerPC. But I see no indication in the
> protobuf 2.6.1 sources that PowerPC is a supported architecture, so I
> wouldn't have expected it to work -- and the patch was presumably not
> applied for that reason. This issue should not affect my patch, as I
> didn't touch the architecture requirements in
> package/protobuf/Config.in (or in anything depending on protobuf).

Right.

> >> Most notably, make sure that protobuf-c builds fine, and
> >> python-protobuf builds fine. But look at the threads for other
> >> potential issues.
> 
> I'll submit a separate patch upgrading protobuf-c to v1.1.1.

Perfect.

> With the protobuf 2.6.1 patch and my [unsubmitted] protobuf-c v1.1.1
> patch, I successfully built with this defconfig (basically
> qemu_x86_64_defconfig + protobuf and any packages using it):

[...]

Excellent, thanks for your testing. I'll wait for your protobuf-c patch
then, and apply both the protobuf and protobuf-c patches.

If some people want to look at enabling PowerPC later, they can do it
as follow-up patches.

Thanks!

Thomas
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