[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/2] package/efivar: bump to version 38

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Mon Oct 10 15:12:57 UTC 2022


Hello Erico,

On Fri, 7 Oct 2022 08:46:10 +0200
Erico Nunes <nunes.erico at gmail.com> wrote:

> I did check for related work in upstream and there are two relevant reports:
> https://github.com/rhboot/efivar/issues/130 reports the makeguids
> issue in cross compilation. There is no solution proposal for it in
> its current state though.
> One potential solution is to change the build to something less
> custom, like meson, then in https://github.com/rhboot/efivar/pull/216
> there is a draft pull request to actually move it to meson.
> Assuming that gets in for the next efivar release, the Buildroot
> specific patch could be dropped by then.
> I think what I can do at this point is test that locally to see if it
> addresses the major problem that we have with Buildroot for a future
> version bump and provide some feedback there.

Thanks for this work! Indeed, if a meson-based build system is in
progress, it doesn't make sense to work on a better patch/solution for
the existing hand-written build system. Let's wait for the meson-based
build system to arrive.

Thomas
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