Re: GCC 4.8 Issues with fsl-ppc and fsl-arm (e5000)

[Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>]

On Jun 25, 2013, at 10:07 AM, Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com> wrote:

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> Guys,
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> There is a continuing failure on the auto-builder with the 4.8 version of GCC for the fsl-ppc and fsl-arm BSPs.  This is currently holding oe-core back from updating GCC to 4.8, which we want to do soon so that we have get any other issues worked out that might come up.

First of all these are not reference BSPs for OE-Core so this should not be a hold off if its urgent and we still have 4.7 gcc in OE-Core But its nicer if they worked.

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> These seem to be ICE issues can get bee seen in the following log files:
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> http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org:8011/builders/nightly-fsl-arm/builds/148/steps/Building%20Images/logs/stdio
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perf is tied to kernel, it works fine with linux-yocto, what kernel is used for imx53qsb ? a preprocessed callchain.c will be helpful.


> http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org:8011/builders/nightly-fsl-ppc/builds/149/steps/Building%20Images/logs/stdio
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gcc crash in eglibc I will take a look at it probably 2.18 might fix it.

> Has anyone investigated these?
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> One possibility discussed during the tech call was to set the tune for these BSPs to use GCC 4.7, but this is not preferred as it just defers and hides the issue.
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> Thanks
> 
> -- 
>    Sau!
> 
> Saul Wold
> Yocto Component Wrangler @ Intel
> Yocto Project / Poky Build System
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