[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/gcc: don't build a toolchain for powerpc with spe ABI with gcc >= 8.x

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>]

On Sun, 26 May 2019 22:15:42 +0200
Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com> wrote:

> The powerpc*-*-*spe* support has been deprecated in GCC 8 [1] and has
> been removed in GCC 9 [2].
> 
> While building with GCC 8, the build stop since we don't provide --enable-obsolete
> option.
> 
> For now, keep powerpcspe support in Buildroot but only for older compiler
> up to GCC 7.
> 
> Note: Although we can't select Glibc for powerpcspe since commit [4], this
> support has been removed for the next version of Glibc (the upcoming 2.30).
> 
> [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2018-04/msg00102.html
> [2] https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commitdiff;h=b31d0348ddada49453e3edaaf93a423fdc61dc79
> [3] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=a053e878494080f7070cf92890e546057236c9c9
> [4] https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=5777e3ffd99132a57e3d29659850eec14b1625f8
> 
> Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
> Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
> ---
>  package/gcc/Config.in.host | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Applied to master, thanks.

Thomas
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