[Buildroot] [for-next 3/3] package/gcc: remove gcc 4.9

[Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> writes:

 > Hello,
 > On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 07:30:26 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

 >> Yeah, that's another reason: if we remove 4.9 from master, than we will not get
 >> any fixes for it that could be applied to the LTS branch. But, well, I don't
 >> think we're testing with 4.9 at all in the autobuilders so the point is kind of
 >> moot.

 > We are testing 4.9 in the autobuilders. I rebuilt the pre-built
 > toolchains a few days ago. We had two gcc 4.8 toolchains, which I moved
 > to 4.9 toolchains. I always try to make sure we have a few "old"
 > toolchains, and at least one "bleeding edge" one, just to test more
 > configurations.

Sorry, yes indeed - I forgot about your recent mail. We still don't (and
can't) test all binutils/gcc/gdb/linux headers/libc combinations.

 > Also, we still have much older external toolchains: remember the recent
 > ICU breakage caused by ICU requiring gcc 4.8 ? If such breakage
 > occurred, it's because we do have toolchains with gcc's older than 4.8.

Yes, but this discussion was explicitly about support in the internal
toolchain handling for old gcc versions.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard