[OE-core] [PATCH 2/6] gmp: Bring back version 4.2.1 (LGPL 2.1+)

Otavio Salvador otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br
Mon Aug 31 13:22:31 UTC 2015


On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 7:18 AM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-08-29 at 10:43 +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
>> Did you enable thumb in that qemuarm build?
>>
>>
>> It's disabled by default and multiple components are broken when you
>> enable it, see:
>> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7717
>
> I'm going to draw a line here. People are asking that the old version of
> gmp be brought back due license issues, fine. It doesn't mean that all
> the bugs in said old release should be fixed.
>
> If thumb on arm with old gmp is an issue for people, I'd suggest that
> those people figure out which patches are needed and send the patches.
> Asking Jussi to deal with this isn't right/fair though.

I disagree. If it will be merged it ought to support what we are
testing nowadays otherwise the backlog will be kept growing forever...

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