[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/grpc: remove obsolete patch to support cross-compiling

Michael Nosthoff buildroot at heine.tech
Tue Feb 2 09:44:49 UTC 2021


Hi Thomas,

Nice catch!
 
On Monday, February 01, 2021 21:57 CET, Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin at gmail.com> wrote: 
 
> From: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire at nokia.com>
> 
> When cross-compiling grpc, a native tool 'grpc_cpp_plugin' is needed.
> Patch '0001-target-build-using-host-plugin.patch' in Buildroot provides a
> way to pass the path to this tool via a configure option
> 'gRPC_NATIVE_CPP_PLUGIN'.
> 
> In version 1.20.0, the upstream grpc project added better support for
> cross-compiling via commit 0d7a0ded [1], searching for the native
> grpc_cpp_plugin via PATH (rather than specifying it as configure option as
> our patch was doing).
> 
> This change renders the mentioned Buildroot patch obsolete, so remove it.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/grpc/grpc/commit/0d7a0ded1cc93bb7f4d69a156b0a69829557cbf2
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire at nokia.com>

Reviewed-by: Michael Nosthoff <buildroot at heine.tech> 
Tested-by: Michael Nosthoff <buildroot at heine.tech>



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