[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] ngrep: bump to version 1.47

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Tue Nov 6 09:54:41 UTC 2018


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> writes:

 > Hello,
 > On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 01:14:48 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

 >> Since we don't really want to pass any flags from Buildroot down to the package
 >> build systems, perhaps we should just set
 >> 
 >> override MAKE := make <jlevel stuff>
 >> 
 >> at the top of package/Makefile.in? I've done a quick test, and it seems to fix
 >> the boa issue at least.
 >> 
 >> This would revert the following commit though:
 >> 
 >> commit 4705b600764c683e934da7db54f7971a3c647e8a
 >> Author: Ulf Samuelsson <ulf.samuelsson at atmel.com>
 >> Date:   Tue Jul 17 14:09:07 2007
 >> 
 >> Ensure we use host 'make', even when building 'make' in buildroot
 >> 
 >> but that doesn't explain why it is not wanted to use the Buildroot-built make...

 > But then it would mean that if you have a build like this:

 > packageA
 > packageB
 > packageC
 > host-make
 > packageD
 > packageE
 > packageF

 > then package{A,B,C} would be built with the system-provided make, and
 > then package{D,E,F} would be built with host-make ? Is this really a
 > desirable situation ?

Well, it sounds better than the breakage we have today.

In general, mixing make versions in recursive invocations seems a bit
icky. I guess we could end up with issues if/when we do toplevel
parallel builds as well if the job control tracking differs between
versions.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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