[Buildroot] Libtool error with AVR32

[Ulf Samuelsson]

fre 2007-09-28 klockan 18:51 +0200 skrev Bernhard Fischer:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 09:09:19AM -0700, don wrote:
> 
> >> Don, I'm still under the impression that you're using something
> >> provided by atmel and not http://buildroot.uclibc.org/
> >> This is not the appropriate place for the "latest AVR32 release from
> >> ATmel" but for buildroot.
> >
> >I'm using an archive of buildroot that Atmel provides on their website.
> 
> >Have you considered creating buildroot releases, which are frozen
> >excerpt for simple bug fixes?  It seems that the rate of new "features"
> 
> Well, I'm thinking about doing this, yes. The problem with a project
> like buildroot (or any distribution) is that it's a moving target per
> definition. Software receives bug-fixes (upstream) or fancy features
> that you may want to use, so you have to update packages sometimes.

It is easily fixed if all targets has

ifeq ($(<PACKAGE>_VERSION),)
<PACKAGE>_VERSION:=<latest_version>
endif

Then the user can supply whatever

<PACKAGE>_VERSION:=<my own version>

he/she wants.


> 
> We don't add much new "features", really. Except for huge experimental
> bundles like xorg only a small number of packages are added (which is a
> good thing since they cost time to keep uptodate).
> 
> cheers,