[Buildroot] [PATCH] toolchain: Bump ARC tools to arc-2016.09-eng008

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Aug 10 20:31:32 UTC 2016


Hello,

On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 19:32:57 +0000, Alexey Brodkin wrote:

> > Beware that using GCC 6 is causing to cause a number of issues related
> > to GCC 6 itself and not to ARC. We already have one GCC 6 toolchain for
> > ARM, and we have a number of build failures caused by this toolchain
> > due to the use of GCC 6.  
> 
> That bump will for sure introduce new breakages while fixing some we already
> know about. But we had to make that bold movement at some point because that
> make us use almost upstream GCC with very few off-the-tree patches for ARC.

Sure, makes sense.

> And indeed our goal is to find and fix as many issues as we can in that new
> toolchain. So we'll continue to monitor BR autobuilder failures on daily basis.

So this means we'll get more help from you guys to fix GCC 6 related
issues ? :-)

> As usual it would be good to rebuild BR pre-built tools for ARC out of this
> commit so we have better coverage in running build jobs.

Sure. As soon as I merge the commit, I'll re-spin the pre-built ARC
toolchain(s).

Thomas
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