[Buildroot] [PATCH] qt: Allow enabling of QtWebKit with GCC 6+
Alexey Brodkin
Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com
Tue Oct 17 15:02:39 UTC 2017
Hi Peter, Thomas,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Korsgaard [mailto:jacmet at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Peter Korsgaard
> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 12:02 PM
> To: Evgeniy Didin <Evgeniy.Didin at synopsys.com>
> Cc: buildroot at busybox.net; Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>; Alexey Brodkin
> <Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] qt: Allow enabling of QtWebKit with GCC 6+
>
> >>>>> "Evgeniy" == Evgeniy Didin <Evgeniy.Didin at synopsys.com> writes:
>
> > Building Qt with QtWebKit on configuration step there is
> > a check which disables QtWebKit build with GCC 6+.
> > Back in the day nobody thought about building Qt with GCC
> > version greater than 5.x. And now with modern GCCs like
> > 6.x and 7.x this assumption gets in the way.
>
> > Given in Buildroot today we don't have GCC older than 4.9
> > it should be safe to remove now meaningless check completely
> > by adding patch to qt.
>
> > Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Didin <didin at synopsys.com>
> > Cc: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin at synopsys.com>
> > Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
>
> Committed to 2017.08.x, thanks.
I see that commit was applied on 2 "LTS" branches already which is definitely good.
But my question is are there any formal rules and guidelines for patches to be
cherry-picked onto LTS branches? Something like https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst?
Probably I just missed that as usual :)
-Alexey
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