[Buildroot] [PATCH] binutils: fix makeinfo related issue

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri Sep 9 14:43:14 UTC 2016


Hello,

On Thu, 8 Sep 2016 22:45:00 +0200, Romain Naour wrote:

> > -# The .info files in the 2.26 tarball have an incorrect timestamp, so
> > -# binutils tries to re-generate them. In order to avoid the dependency
> > -# on host-texinfo, we simply update the timestamps.
> > -ifeq ($(BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION_2_26_X),y)
> > +# The .info files in the >= 2.26 tarball have an incorrect timestamp,
> > +# so binutils tries to re-generate them. In order to avoid the
> > +# dependency on host-texinfo, we simply update the timestamps.
> > +ifeq ($(BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION_2_26_X)$(BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION_2_27_X),y)  
> 
> Binutils 2.28 will likely have the same issue, why not inverse the condition ?
> ifneq ($(BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION_2_24_X)$(BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION_2_25_X),)

Right, but maybe I could dream that someone will report the bug to the
binutils maintainers, and that the problem will be fixed in binutils
2.28 ? :-)

Thomas
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