From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gustavo Zacarias Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 17:59:33 -0300 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] gcc: add gcc 5.2.0 In-Reply-To: <20150716225639.14772165@free-electrons.com> References: <1437079928-9591-1-git-send-email-gustavo@zacarias.com.ar> <20150716225639.14772165@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <55A81B35.2040200@zacarias.com.ar> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 16/07/15 17:56, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > That's not the right way of adding gcc 5.2 support. The gcc > release numbers have changed: 5 is the major release, and 5.{1,2} are > the bug fix releases. > > Quoting https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2015-07/msg00198.html: > > GCC 5.2 is a bug-fix release from the GCC 5 branch > containing important fixes for regressions and serious bugs in > GCC 5.1 with more than 81 bugs fixed since the previous release. > > Therefore, we should instead rename BR2_GCC_VERSION_5_1_X to > BR2_GCC_VERSION_5_X, and then simply update from 5.1 to 5.2 (keeping > only 5.2 and removing 5.1), exactly like we were doing when the version > was changed from 4.9.1 to 4.9.2 for example. > > Could you rework your patch in this direction? Yes, i had a little talk with Yann about it and mostly agree. However the diff is big enough (8 MB bzipped) and 5.2 doesn't build a bootable kernel for qemu-versatile where 5.1 IIRC does, hence introducing a regression. Do we still want to step on 5.1 considering this? Regards.