From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/gdb: ARC version has stringent dependencies on host gcc
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 22:37:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171102223701.4a47f1fb@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1509658298.7985.2.camel@synopsys.com>
Hello,
On Thu, 2 Nov 2017 21:31:39 +0000, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> Indeed our GDB is based on very up to date upstream sources so all
> limitations for GDB 8.x are valid for ARC's one.
>
> That said it has nothing to do with ARCH but only GDB version makes sense.
> So why don't we just introduce BR2_GDB_VERSION_ARC which will be the only option
> for ARC and will have the same set of "depends" as BR2_GDB_VERSION_8_0?
If we do that, then we would end up with gdb being available, but no
version selectable on ARC if the host has a compiler older than gcc
4.8. We prefer to hide gdb entirely in such a situation.
Best regards,
Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-02 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-02 18:14 [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/gdb: ARC version has stringent dependencies on host gcc Yann E. MORIN
2017-11-02 21:12 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2017-11-02 21:25 ` Yann E. MORIN
2017-11-02 21:31 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2017-11-02 21:31 ` Alexey Brodkin
2017-11-02 21:37 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2017-11-02 21:38 ` Yann E. MORIN
2017-11-02 21:41 ` Alexey Brodkin
2017-11-02 21:44 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2017-11-02 22:07 ` Alexey Brodkin
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