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From: akuster808 <akuster808@gmail.com>
To: "Burton, Ross" <ross.burton@intel.com>, Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
Cc: OE-core <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: Future of GCC
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 14:14:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57855DCA.1080807@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJTo0LbByAsem7asRmieaeVvLHarr8D9zynCUncEqt0J2JvmfQ@mail.gmail.com>



On 07/12/2016 01:15 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 12 July 2016 at 08:57, Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com> wrote:
> 
>> Now that GCC 4.x is gone, we're left with (currently) 5.4 & 6.1
>> Is the intention to track these both for a while, or will 5.x
>> also be gone once things are working with 6.x?
>>
>> ... just wondering where to spend my effort since I'll have to
>> make my targets (some are very old) work with at least 5.x
>>
>> Any advice?  Thanks
>>
> 
> Personally I was thinking that gcc 5.x and 6.x should stay in oe-core for
> this cycle, and then drop 5.x after the release.


Wouldn't that be dropped iff GCC 7.0 is release? or are you saying we
should only have one GCC version?

- armin

I'm not the toolchain
> owner though so that's just an opinion.


> 
> In theory bringing back toolchains isn't rocket science - just copying the
> 4.x recipes from oe-core prior to their removal into a new layer and
> setting GCCVERSION should work.
> 
> Ross
> 
> 
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-12 21:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-12  7:57 Future of GCC Gary Thomas
2016-07-12  8:15 ` Burton, Ross
2016-07-12 21:14   ` akuster808 [this message]
2016-07-12 21:24     ` Burton, Ross
2016-07-12 21:34       ` akuster808
2016-07-12 22:27         ` Richard Purdie
2016-07-12 23:15           ` Khem Raj
2016-07-13 12:46           ` Martin Jansa

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