[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/3] package/make: add host variant

[Matthew Weber]

Thomas,

On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 3:28 AM Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 14:55:11 -0500, Matthew Weber wrote:
>
> > I plan to give this a test tomorrow.  We have been close to sending
> > something similar because of a Make 3 vs 4 issue across vintages of
> > builds we've been supporting.  I wonder if there is any interest
> > picking this one back into the LTS?
>
> If you're talking about the issue that Sam Voss was discussing on IRC,
> then it's different. Your issue was that your host machine is using
> make >= 4.0, but some of your funky packages don't like that and would
> need make < 4.0 to build.
>
> This is not handled by Romain's series at all, which handles the
> opposite situation: packages that need make >= 4.0, but the host has
> make < 4.0.
>

Yep, Sam was discussing handling older kernel / buildroot versions vs
versions of Make.

Romain's series covers compatibility on some of our older build
machines until we get them refreshed.

Matt