[1.1.2] missing build deps for mount

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Mon Apr 17 14:21:39 PDT 2006


On Sunday 16 April 2006 7:10 pm, Andre wrote:
> > > This fixes the problem with gcc-3.4.4
> > >
> > > Thanks
> >
> > This isn't the first time we've bumped into the arm version of gcc
> > being broken in precisely this way:
> >
> > http://busybox.net/downloads/patches/svn-11231.patch
> >
> > Last time I checked in a workaround for the broken arm compiler,
> > but this time I'd prefer to recommend people upgrade to a
> > non-broken compiler, if that's an ok solution for people...
>
> Agree in principle, however gcc 3.4 isn't really that old (and is
> considered a stable compiler for most things). Without the patch,
> busybox becomes the first project I know of which requires a minimum
> of gcc 4.x

I don't object if somebody else checks the patch in (it doesn't break anything 
or cost size, it's just source code clutter), but I'm not going to.  It's a 
clear bug in the compiler, the last two releases of the compiler (4.0 and 
4.1) don't seem to have this bug, there's an easy workaround for 3.x (enable 
loop support in mount), and it's a platform specific issue that's never going 
to eat anybody's data.

Ask Bernhard or Mike if they want to do it. :)

> Andre

Rob
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