[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/gcc: add support for gcc 8.1

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 21-05-18 23:52, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>>>>>> "Romain" == Romain Naour <romain.naour at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  > See the reply from Arnout and Dagg for gcc 4.9:
>  > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/767087
> 
>  > I'm not sure that the odroidc2 defconfig is able to build with gcc >= 4.9 since
>  > it's stuck at kernel odroidc2-3.14.y and uboot odroidc2-v2015.01.
>  > Dagg, what do we do for this board?
> 
> I believe that mainline support for this board is fairly far, so if that
> is the only thing keeping 4.9 around I think we can drop it.

 I voted for keeping 4.9 because quite a few chips are stuck with ancient vendor
kernels and U-Boot. For the kernel I'd accept it, but for U-Boot it's generally
more difficult to go to an upstream version, there is not much of a security
reason to bump U-Boot, and backporting the compiler.h changes is not entirely
trivial. I think keeping the 4.9 option makes the out-of-the-box experience for
people who are stuck in this situation easier.

 Also, "maintaining" the 4.9 version really doesn't pose much of an overhead. At
least as long as we support multiple gcc versions, and there are no issues
building gcc 4.9 on recent distros.

 So I'm still voting for keeping 4.9, at least until it starts breaking on
recent distros. If we remove something, remove 5.

 Regards,
 Arnout

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