[Buildroot] Upcoming glibc-2.31 breaks busybox, strace.
Arnout Vandecappelle
arnout at mind.be
Thu Jan 23 21:23:39 UTC 2020
On 23/01/2020 12:56, Evgeniy Didin wrote:
> Hi Thomas, all,
>
> 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 :-)
Regards,
Arnout
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