[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/protobuf: depend on gcc >= 4.5

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue May 2 12:03:31 UTC 2017


Hello,

On Mon, 1 May 2017 20:43:27 -0500, Matthew Weber wrote:

> > I'll give it a shot at reproducing locally. Hopefully I can patch the
> > triggering instances.
> > If I succeed, I'll commit a different patch to support building on
> > older versions of gcc,
> > and will send it upstream, too, so the patches can be dropped in a
> > following version.
> > Wish me luck!  
> 
> Another data point,  This Ubuntu host GCC seems to not have the issue,
> so some distros have pulled the fix in.
> g++ (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3) 4.8.4

Well, the problem has been fixed in gcc upstream since 4.5 apparently,
so obviously a 4.8 gcc does not exhibit the issue, and it's not because
of distro-specific patches.

Thomas
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