[OE-core] [PATCH 1/3 v2] sanity.bbclass: Check for the known broken version of make

[Philip Balister]

On 06/30/2013 11:56 AM, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> On 27 June 2013 10:08, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:
>> See GNU Savannah bug 30612 -- make 3.82 is known to be broken.
>>
>> A number of vendors are providing a modified version, so checking
>> for just the version string is not enough.  We also need to check
>> if the patch for the issue has been applied.  We use a modified
>> version of the reproduced to check for the issue.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com>
>> ---
>> +
>> +        if status != 0:
>> +            return "Your version of make 3.82 is broken. Please revert to 3.81 or install a patched version.\n"
> 
> 
> Instead of returning an error and asking the user to manually update
> their own 'make', wouldn't it be better if bitbake simply built its
> own known-to-be-working -native version instead? In this way a good,
> working version of 'make' could be installed in a potential SDK's
> sysroot as well?

Is the broken version good enough to build a working version?

Philip


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