From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 22:37:01 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/gdb: ARC version has stringent dependencies on host gcc In-Reply-To: <1509658298.7985.2.camel@synopsys.com> References: <20171102181405.6476-1-yann.morin.1998@free.fr> <1509658298.7985.2.camel@synopsys.com> Message-ID: <20171102223701.4a47f1fb@windsurf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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