[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/cmake: bump version to 3.10.0 and add license hash

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Dec 19 08:39:47 UTC 2017


Hello,

On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 23:15:42 +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

>  > I looke at my autobuilder, and it uses gcc-4.8.2, and cmake builds fine
>  > with that...  
> 
>  > gcc-4.8 was released in March 2013, which will be almost 5 years ago
>  > when we tag LTS 2018.02. So maybe we can keep using cmake-3.9 up until
>  > 2018.02, then update our requirements to require a host gcc >= 4.8m
>  > which will allow us to bump cmake to 3.10.  
> 
>  > I agree that, with time passing, more and more packages will require
>  > C++11, so it will make sense to require proper C++11 support for the
>  > host compiler.  
> 
> Yes, maybe that is indeed the best way forward - Post 2018.02 that is.

It feels a bit annoying to make such a change that would impact all
Buildroot users, just for the sole reason of an optimization down into
CMake.

I agree that we won't be able to avoid using a C++11 compiler on the
host at some point. I'm just trying to see if we can avoid this when
reasonably possible.

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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