Re: [crosstool-ng/crosstool-ng] 734d1e: Restore uClibc samples.

[Bryan Hundven <bryanhundven at gmail dot com>]

On Tue, 2015-11-10 at 10:11 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Bryan,
> 
> On Tue, 10 Nov 2015 01:04:16 -0800, Bryan Hundven wrote:
> 
> > Commit 1a25115a1851d3defdf4d37825d8a291be078e53 deleted non-GCC
> > related
> > files, including the patch for uClibc to compile with Linux kernels
> > after
> > 3.4.
> > 
> > uClibc 0.9.30 patches are not restored by this change (0.9.30 is
> > broken
> > with recent kernels for multiple other breakages in addition to
> > that; if
> > not retired, it needs to be fixed properly).
> 
> You should just remove support for any uClibc version that isn't the
> latest. Even 0.9.33.2 is 3 years old.
> 
> Unless you want to support people who try to build a toolchain that
> has
> a C library matching the one they have on their existing platform
> (router, etc.). But it's a rather clunky exercise IMO.

Fair enough! I'm getting close to completing testing of uClibc-ng-
1.0.8. I'll remove 0.9.32.2 with the "version bump". ;)

If users of crosstool-ng really need an older version of uClibc, they
can always use an older branch of crosstool-ng!

> Best regards,
> 
> Thomas

Cheers,

-Bryan

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