[Buildroot] [PATCH 4/9] docs/manual: document gcc version dependencies

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Wed Aug 5 19:53:25 UTC 2015


Thomas, All,

On 2015-08-05 11:05 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Tue, 4 Aug 2015 21:58:58 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > > +* GCC version
> > > +** Dependency symbol: +BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_X_Y+, (replace
> > > +   +X_Y+ with the proper version, see +toolchain/toolchain-common.in+)
> > > +** Comment string: +gcc >= X.Y+ and/or `gcc <= X.Y` (replace
> > 
> > One of the condition is between ++ and the other between ``. I konow you
> > just replicated what was done for the kernel headers, but wuld it not be
> > better to use only ++ (or only ``, I don't mind) but not both?
> 
> There is actually a good reason for that: if you use +...+ for +gcc <=
> X.Y+, then the <= gets replaced by the <= mathematic character rather
> than being the two characters < and =.

Ah, right. Now I remember why they were different. Still, we should not
mix the two possibilities, and just use `` since that's what works.

> So I've kept the special use of `...` for the time being.

Yep, good.

I'll prepare a patch to fix that.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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