classes/sanity: check we don't have an ancient GNU patch

We depend on the host GNU patch, but patch < 2.7 can't handle git-style patches.
This results in patches that fail to apply, or worse apply incorrectly.

(From OE-Core rev: ddda57ab1dee989dce8754350471807c916a6f47)

Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Ross Burton
2017-12-05 17:51:37 +00:00
committed by Richard Purdie
parent daa509f9e4
commit 0b9be27113

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@@ -456,6 +456,22 @@ def check_sanity_validmachine(sanity_data):
return messages
# Patch before 2.7 can't handle all the features in git-style diffs. Some
# patches may incorrectly apply, and others won't apply at all.
def check_patch_version(sanity_data):
from distutils.version import LooseVersion
import re, subprocess
try:
result = subprocess.check_output(["patch", "--version"], stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, universal_newlines=True)
version = re.search(r"[0-9.]+", result.splitlines()[0]).group()
if LooseVersion(version) < LooseVersion("2.7"):
return "Your version of patch is older than 2.7 and has bugs which will break builds. Please install a newer version of patch.\n"
else:
return None
except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
return "Unable to execute patch --version, exit code %d:\n%s\n" % (e.returncode, e.output)
# Unpatched versions of make 3.82 are known to be broken. See GNU Savannah Bug 30612.
# Use a modified reproducer from http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?30612 to validate.
def check_make_version(sanity_data):
@@ -596,6 +612,7 @@ def check_sanity_version_change(status, d):
import stat
status.addresult(check_make_version(d))
status.addresult(check_patch_version(d))
status.addresult(check_tar_version(d))
status.addresult(check_git_version(d))
status.addresult(check_perl_modules(d))