Re: linux-yocto and gcc 5.x

[Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>]

On 2015-05-11 09:20 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> Hi Bruce,
>
> One of the things we're looking at in 1.9 is gcc 5.x support by default.
> One of the areas this has significant impact is on the kernels,
> linux-yocto in particular. I'm starting to see a potential problem here
> since the kernels don't appear to work well with gcc 5.x:
>
> http://errors.yoctoproject.org/Errors/Search/?items=10&query=1426e31f0bcd19f066931d2ecbdec3752b14e88e&limit=150&order_by=RECIPE
>
> (this is a test build I ran just to see how bad things were).
>
> Are we going to be in a position to get 5.x support backported into 3.14
> (and maybe 3.10)? Or was we going to have to wait for later versions?

I should be able to bring gcc5 support back to the previous LTSI
kernel (3.14), but need to poke at the breakage myself to know
for sure.

What's the incantation to configure gcc5 into a test build ?

Bruce

>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
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