[Buildroot] Upcoming glibc-2.31 breaks busybox, strace.

Romain Naour romain.naour at gmail.com
Sun Feb 2 14:32:23 UTC 2020


Hi All,

Le dim. 2 févr. 2020 à 14:40, Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com> a
écrit :

> >>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> writes:
>
> Hi,
>
>  >> In February 2020 the new release of glibc is going to happen. There
> are at least
>  >> two packages known which latest releases
>  >> fail to build with latest revision of glibc: Busybox and strace.
>  >>
>  >> For "strace" there is a patch in master branch which solves the error:
>  >>
> https://github.com/strace/strace/commit/9afd83c11cb78a04954daaedb54b20214a35ec9c
>  >>
>  >> For busybox there are at least two patches required:
>  >>
> https://git.buildroot.net/busybox/commit/?id=6937487be73cd4563b876413277a295a5fe2f32c
>  >>
> https://git.buildroot.net/busybox/commit/?id=d3539be8f27b8cbfdfee460fe08299158f08bcd9
>  >>
>  >> Should we introduce these patches now or should we wait until
> glibc-2.31 is
>  >> introduced in buildroot?
>
>  >  It doesn't hurt to introduce those patches now, since it's possible
> for people
>  > to use an external toolchain with glibc-2.31. In fact, I suspect that
> the ARC
>  > people do exactly that :-)
>
> Yes, please send patches.
>

There are some other issues with this  new version that was discovered by
toolchain-builder:
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2020-02/msg00007.html

I'll send patchs for glibc and gcc.

Thanks for sharing your issues with glibc!

Best regards,
Romain


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