[Buildroot] Buildroot autobuilder: ARC toolchain update

[Buildroot] Buildroot autobuilder: ARC toolchain update

[Alexey Brodkin]

Hi Thomas,

Now with arc-2018.09 tools integrated in Buildroot may we
have it packages in prebuilt tarball so autobuilder uses it
instead of pretty old br-arcle-hs38-full-2018.05.tar.bz2?

-Alexey

[Buildroot] Buildroot autobuilder: ARC toolchain update

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 10:24:39 +0000, Alexey Brodkin wrote:

> Now with arc-2018.09 tools integrated in Buildroot may we
> have it packages in prebuilt tarball so autobuilder uses it
> instead of pretty old br-arcle-hs38-full-2018.05.tar.bz2?

I did a rebuild of all toolchains not long ago, but did not deploy it
yet. Also, it was before the bump of ARC tools to 2018.09.

However, notice that the 2018.09 ARC tools are already tested in the
autobuilders, because we have a config fragment that uses the internal
toolchain backend for ARC:

  https://git.buildroot.org/buildroot/tree/support/config-fragments/autobuild/br-arc-full-internal.config
  https://git.buildroot.org/buildroot/tree/support/config-fragments/autobuild/br-arc-internal-glibc.config

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

[Buildroot] [arc-buildroot] Buildroot autobuilder: ARC toolchain update

[Alexey Brodkin]

Hi Thomas,

On Tue, 2018-12-11 at 11:31 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 10:24:39 +0000, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> 
> > Now with arc-2018.09 tools integrated in Buildroot may we
> > have it packages in prebuilt tarball so autobuilder uses it
> > instead of pretty old br-arcle-hs38-full-2018.05.tar.bz2?
> 
> I did a rebuild of all toolchains not long ago, but did not deploy it
> yet. Also, it was before the bump of ARC tools to 2018.09.

Indeed I noticed that looking at tarballs folder :)

> However, notice that the 2018.09 ARC tools are already tested in the
> autobuilders, because we have a config fragment that uses the internal
> toolchain backend for ARC:

Sure that's good but what I meant we're still seeing quite some
build that use old "prebult" ARC tools and some of them fail like
http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/39f8bd704e936f70911cccd14518b1bfbe303a65/
and others.

Some of those failures are known to be fixed by new toolchain thus
asking you to update it.

Note I'm not saying that toolchain bump will immediately fix all
ARC failures. Quite in reverse we may start seeing more breakages due to move
from GCC 7.3.1 to 8.2.1 but that's why we mess with all that here I guess :)

-Alexey