[Buildroot] Analysis of autobuild failures 18-19/11

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 21-11-16 00:18, Sam Bobroff wrote:
> Really, the right approach would probably be to change the compiler
> flags so that it's not combining altivec with -std=c99 (e.g. change
> -std=c99 to -std=gnu99, which also fixes the issue for me) but I'm
> concerned that doing it that way might have unintended side effects
> since I don't know exactly what those flags change or why the package is
> setting c99 in the first place.

 Packages usually set --std=cNN to give some kind of portability guarantee.
There normally shouldn't be a difference when compiling with --std=gnu. There
are no guarantees, of course, but it should be pretty safe.

 Regards,
 Arnout

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