[OE-core] [PATCH] libpng 1.6.13: fix build for aarch64

[Burton, Ross]

On 3 November 2014 15:24, Koen Kooi <koen.kooi at linaro.org> wrote:

> It's been over a month and libpng is still broken, so I refuse to classify
> this new process as 'helpful' or as 'appreciated' at this point.


Remember that 1.7 was frozen solid for several weeks of that month, so no
it wouldn't have been merged in that time period.  It's only just
re-opened: master is currently 80 patches ahead of dizzy, 35 in the C-Pull
I sent last night, and another 33 in my staging branch right now so it's
not like we're taking it easy right now.

Some context: during September it was obvious that various parties had an
interest in aarch64 (Linaro and Wind River).  Patches to fix build failures
were being sent sporadically, a qemuarm64 machine was submitted, but there
was no kernel for said machine to actually build.   At the time there was
no qemuarm64 machine that actually worked, so even merging the "simple"
fixes on just faith that they're correct would be reckless considering we
were freezing.  This is why I suggested[1] that someone with a vested
interest in aarch64 collate all the patches into a single branch and keep
it rebased to master so that when master opens, it can be tested on *all*
qemu architectures and merged.  It appears that this hasn't happened.  Will
Linaro be able to create a branch that incorporates all of the patches and
new machine that's been tested as a whole?

Ross

[1]
http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2014-September/097211.html
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