[Buildroot] [PATCH 07/10] gcc: remove versions 4.3.x and 4.6.x

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Thu Jul 10 14:18:57 UTC 2014


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:

 > Those gcc series are old and are not used as the default versions for
 > any of the architectures we support, so this commit gets rid of them.

 > The gcc 4.3.x series technically remains used by the LPC32xx
 > defconfigs we have:

 > configs/ea3250_defconfig:BR2_GCC_VERSION_4_3_X=y
 > configs/fdi3250_defconfig:BR2_GCC_VERSION_4_3_X=y
 > configs/phy3250_defconfig:BR2_GCC_VERSION_4_3_X=y

 > Back when those defconfigs were introduced, gcc 4.3 was chosen because
 > it was the only one capable of building a fully working kernel for
 > those ARM-based platforms. However, the original submitter, Alexandre
 > Belloni, no longer has access to the hardware platforms, so he is
 > unable to test if newer gcc versions have fixed the problem. It
 > certainly doesn't make sense to keep gcc 4.3.x just for those three
 > boards, so we'll wait for someone actually using those defconfigs to
 > complain.

 > Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>

Committed, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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