[Buildroot] [PATCH v4 08/15] package/gcc: switch to gcc 8.x as the default

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Sun Jun 23 09:29:40 UTC 2019


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> writes:

Hi,

 > What do we do with the older gcc versions ? We now have 4.9, 5, 6, 7, 8
 > and 9, which is quite a bit more than the normal number of 3 versions
 > we want to support.

 > Arnout: do you still think gcc 4.9 is needed at this point ? If it is
 > the case, should we keep gcc 4.9, but drop gcc 5 and 6 ?

I know it is painful for people stuck on E.G. old bootloader/kernel
versions, but I think it makes sense to slowly remove these old gcc
versions, so E.G. by the time we release 2020.02 that we only support
gcc 7/8/9.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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