[Buildroot] [PATCH] uclibc: get rid of ARC's uClibc fork

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Tue Oct 27 22:47:39 UTC 2015


>>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> writes:

Hi,

>>> In that case, perhaps the snapshot version should be enabled for ARC?
 >> 
 >> To be honest, I am wondering if this snapshot thing is really useful in
 >> any way. Is anyone really using this ? Why do we have this for uClibc
 >> and not for any other package ?

 >  I guess because buildroot was started as a build system for uClibc... The
 > initial version of buildroot (ffde94bd2) even only supported snapshot.

 >  Now that there are actual releases of uClibc, I see little reason to support
 > snapshots. And you anyway can still use _OVERRIDE_SRCDIR.

I agree, we have also dropped snapshot support for busybox and gcc.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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