From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2019 21:44:10 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v4 08/15] package/gcc: switch to gcc 8.x as the default In-Reply-To: <20190620100725.105587-9-giulio.benetti@micronovasrl.com> References: <20190620100725.105587-1-giulio.benetti@micronovasrl.com> <20190620100725.105587-9-giulio.benetti@micronovasrl.com> Message-ID: <20190622214410.4bc6022e@windsurf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 12:07:18 +0200 Giulio Benetti wrote: > From: Romain Naour > > Even if gcc 7 is still maintained for some time (gcc 7.5 is pending), > switch to gcc 8.x since it has been released since 2018-05-02 and > gcc 9.x is available since 2019-05-03. > > We have been having toolchains in the autobuilders with gcc > 8.x for a while, so the vast majority of the problems should have > already been solved. > > Signed-off-by: Romain Naour > Signed-off-by: Giulio Benetti > --- > v3: rebase patch on top of master branch sha1: > 04efb17c863606cdbc2405d01c3d48d6868c5245 (Giulio) > --- > package/gcc/Config.in.host | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Applied to master, thanks. What do we do with the older gcc versions ? We now have 4.9, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, which is quite a bit more than the normal number of 3 versions we want to support. Arnout: do you still think gcc 4.9 is needed at this point ? If it is the case, should we keep gcc 4.9, but drop gcc 5 and 6 ? Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com