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From: Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: gcc Recipes
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:10:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1270037424.14554.47.camel@mill.internal.reciva.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <y2oac9c93b11003310445gb3deec55va9bd2664d0336584@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 13:45 +0200, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> But still I wonder what is e.g. the use of recipes like 4.1.1 (which
> btw was released in may 2006).

Binary compatibility with existing distributions which use that version
of gcc.  This is particularly important for kernel modules where the
exact compiler version needs to match, and it is also something of an
issue for folks using C++.

p.





  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-31 12:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-31 11:28 gcc Recipes Richard Purdie
2010-03-31 11:45 ` Frans Meulenbroeks
2010-03-31 12:10   ` Phil Blundell [this message]
2010-03-31 13:00   ` Richard Purdie
2010-03-31 16:12 ` Mark Richards
2010-03-31 17:25 ` Khem Raj
2010-03-31 20:20   ` Richard Purdie

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