[Buildroot] [for-next 3/3] package/gcc: remove gcc 4.9
Romain Naour
romain.naour at gmail.com
Sat Jul 1 08:40:11 UTC 2017
Hi All,
Le 14/06/2017 à 09:06, Peter Korsgaard a écrit :
>>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> > On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 07:30:26 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
>
> >> Yeah, that's another reason: if we remove 4.9 from master, than we will not get
> >> any fixes for it that could be applied to the LTS branch. But, well, I don't
> >> think we're testing with 4.9 at all in the autobuilders so the point is kind of
> >> moot.
>
> > We are testing 4.9 in the autobuilders. I rebuilt the pre-built
> > toolchains a few days ago. We had two gcc 4.8 toolchains, which I moved
> > to 4.9 toolchains. I always try to make sure we have a few "old"
> > toolchains, and at least one "bleeding edge" one, just to test more
> > configurations.
>
> Sorry, yes indeed - I forgot about your recent mail. We still don't (and
> can't) test all binutils/gcc/gdb/linux headers/libc combinations.
>
> > Also, we still have much older external toolchains: remember the recent
> > ICU breakage caused by ICU requiring gcc 4.8 ? If such breakage
> > occurred, it's because we do have toolchains with gcc's older than 4.8.
>
> Yes, but this discussion was explicitly about support in the internal
> toolchain handling for old gcc versions.
>
I've removed this patch from patchwork.
Best regards,
Romain
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