[Buildroot] [PATCHv2] Makefile: work around a bug in newly released make 4.3
Peter Korsgaard
peter at korsgaard.com
Thu Mar 5 15:40:55 UTC 2020
>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> writes:
> Several users of rolling-release distributions have been reporting on
> IRC that Buildroot is broken now that they have switched to the newly
> released make 4.3.
> It turns out that the constructs we use to generated and onclude the
> internal br2-external related fragments is no longer working with
> make-4.3.
> Indeed, an upstream bug report [0] seems to imply that it so far was
> working by chance. There has been no further feedback, whether this is
> really considered a fix for a previous ill-defined behaviour, or an
> actual regression...
> In the meantime, we add a workaround, suggested in that same bug report,
> that fixes the issue for make 4.3, and that should not break on older
> make versions either (verified on all relevant versions: from 3.81,
> 3.82, 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2).
> [0] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57676
> Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>
> ---
> Changes v1 -> v2:
> - [0] points to something now (Thomas)
> - repeat the bug URL in the Makefile (Thomas)
> - explain where the workaround comes from (Thomas)
Committed, thanks.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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