From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 16:18:57 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 07/10] gcc: remove versions 4.3.x and 4.6.x In-Reply-To: <1404237789-15563-8-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Tue, 1 Jul 2014 20:03:06 +0200") References: <1404237789-15563-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <1404237789-15563-8-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <87ha2ppa9a.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni writes: > Those gcc series are old and are not used as the default versions for > any of the architectures we support, so this commit gets rid of them. > The gcc 4.3.x series technically remains used by the LPC32xx > defconfigs we have: > configs/ea3250_defconfig:BR2_GCC_VERSION_4_3_X=y > configs/fdi3250_defconfig:BR2_GCC_VERSION_4_3_X=y > configs/phy3250_defconfig:BR2_GCC_VERSION_4_3_X=y > Back when those defconfigs were introduced, gcc 4.3 was chosen because > it was the only one capable of building a fully working kernel for > those ARM-based platforms. However, the original submitter, Alexandre > Belloni, no longer has access to the hardware platforms, so he is > unable to test if newer gcc versions have fixed the problem. It > certainly doesn't make sense to keep gcc 4.3.x just for those three > boards, so we'll wait for someone actually using those defconfigs to > complain. > Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni Committed, thanks. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard