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

Romain Naour romain.naour at smile.fr
Wed Jun 26 07:34:14 UTC 2019


Hi Thomas,

Hi Thomas,

Le 26/06/2019 à 09:23, Thomas Petazzoni a écrit :
> On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 08:55:00 +0200
> Romain Naour <romain.naour at smile.fr> wrote:
> 
>> Note: gcc 5 is still used by beaglebone_qt5_defconfig in order to test the SGX
>> PowerVR GPU using TI's sgx demo package.
>> This defconfig doesn't seems maintained for a long time (compared to
>> beaglebone_defconfig). I'm adding Lothar Felten in Cc.
>>
>> Lothar: it would be great if you can have a look at this defconfig and try to
>> use gcc 8 (or at least gcc 7).
> 
> Lothar did quite a bit of work on this, but we had the issue of the GBM
> API, where I tried to do a virtual package, but it didn't work well,
> Lothar did further experiments with Qt with GBM, and it worked, but I
> never had the chance to have a look.

I used git log for having the history on this defconfig, the drawback of this
method is I'm missing all work that is not merged yet.
I wasn't aware of Lothar's work, sorry.
> 
> So, I wouldn't blame Lothar for not updating the defconfig here :-)

I don't blame Lothar for not updating this defconfig, I understand working on
TI's SGX packages is difficult :)
My intention is to notify Lothar that we are going to remove gcc 5.x.

Best regards,
Romain

> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Thomas
> 



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