Re: ovmf fails to build in stagin-4.6

[Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>]

On Mon, Oct 26, Wei Liu wrote:

> Wait, so you're using gcc-5.1.1 but OVMF is reporting gcc-4.4 (see in
> the path of output string), there might be another problem with
> toolchain detection then.

As Linus said: detect old and known to be problematic, everything else has to
be handled as "current". But see tools/firmware/ovmf-dir-remote/OvmfPkg/build.sh

    gcc_version=$(gcc -v 2>&1 | tail -1 | awk '{print $3}')
    case $gcc_version in
      4.5.*)
        TARGET_TOOLS=GCC45
        ;;
      4.6.*)
        TARGET_TOOLS=GCC46
        ;;
      4.7.*)
        TARGET_TOOLS=GCC47
        ;;
      4.8.*)
        TARGET_TOOLS=GCC48
        ;;
      4.9.*|4.1[0-9].*)
        TARGET_TOOLS=GCC49
        ;;
      *)
        TARGET_TOOLS=GCC44
        ;;
    esac

Olaf