[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] package/Makefile.in: remove HOSTCC_VERSION

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 29-11-15 18:52, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Arnout,
> 
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 20:50:36 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> 
>>> Ehh, no. I guess a 4.x version would make more sense. Any idea what 'x'
>>> should be? 3? 5? 7?
>>
>> We'd need to check all the host packages (plus the packages that build a host
>> tool as part of the target build, like uboot) to be sure of that. The
>> autobuilders tell us that 4.7 at least is OK.
> 
> My autobuilder instance uses gcc 4.4:
> 
> test at build:~$ gcc -v
> [...]
> gcc version 4.4.5 (Debian 4.4.5-8)
> 
> (Yes, I'm running old stuff. On purpose.)


 So, should we set it to 4.4?

 Ideally we should have a test instance on RHEL5 as well, there are definitely
still company deployments based on that. RHEL5 has gcc 4.1.

 RHEL4 has gcc 3.4 but I don't think that that is very useful.

 Regards,
 Arnout


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