From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 22:08:00 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 00/10] Proposals of deprecation/removal, mainly affecting toolchain In-Reply-To: <20140701183614.GZ3981@waldemar-brodkorb.de> References: <1404237789-15563-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <20140701183614.GZ3981@waldemar-brodkorb.de> Message-ID: <20140701220800.0439e136@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Waldemar Brodkorb, On Tue, 1 Jul 2014 20:36:14 +0200, Waldemar Brodkorb wrote: > > This set of patches proposes a certain number of deprecation or > > removal. They are mostly independent from each other: > > > > - Deprecation of the AVR32 architecture. > > - Removal of old binutils versions > > - Removal of uClibc 0.9.32.1 > > - Removal of gcc 4.3.x and 4.6.x > > - Removal of gdb 7.4 and 7.5 > > - Removal of busybox version selection > > > > Let me know what you think about those various proposals. > > I would even suggest to switch binutils to 2.24 as default. > I had no problems with 2.24 for a long time on different > architectures. It is not so problematic as gcc, where I am more > conservative, too. Yes, I was also thinking about doing this, but since it's really bumping the default version of a component and not just removing/deprecating old versions, my plan was to do it as part of another patch series. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com