[OE-core] [PATCH 2/3] glib-2.0: drop add-march-i486-into-CFLAGS-automatically.patch

Huang, Jie (Jackie) Jackie.Huang at windriver.com
Wed Feb 3 08:07:43 UTC 2016



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Blundell [mailto:pb at pbcl.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2016 6:45 AM
> To: MacLeod, Randy
> Cc: Andre McCurdy; openembedded-core at lists.openembedded.org; Huang, Jie (Jackie)
> Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 2/3] glib-2.0: drop add-march-i486-into-CFLAGS-automatically.patch
> 
> On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 17:23 -0500, Randy MacLeod wrote:
> > Do you remember why this patch was needed?
> 
> The comments in the patch provide a fairly clear explanation of what
> problem it was trying to solve.  But I agree with Andre that this cure
> is in fact worse than the original disease.
> 
> In any case, the issue is probably moot because neither glibc nor musl
> support cpus without cmpxchg any more.

I'm not the author of that patch, just helped forwarding it.
It seems reasonable to drop it and we may get back to the issue
and solve it with a more proper way.

Thanks,
Jackie

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