From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pa0-f65.google.com (mail-pa0-f65.google.com [209.85.220.65]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB2036067C for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2016 21:14:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f65.google.com with SMTP id dx3so1725217pab.2 for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2016 14:14:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:to:references:cc:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=JSeBxtZ2GL2mQ23NNKvvB9FpZsNdyw7mCUIUXqAjbUk=; b=Vvstbewebp4779aErIekUxwliVj17cB61psOQuCkguiTX6X27EMZvf7qPI0G/BF4hH 1XzjFNArTVwvrz/kxM9a0C7giLEh5yrdOPi/WvuGwFbBhuMicBOJirV4cO0EOUQtYDdz 1Emh1DWO+mL2HYClPMdhj8mvoIu+mURCjFpDHnnAfQDZyjxp9ARcxNhZ63nI4F9yAqJT iWx0KJ3ilIdFnCjYSOOOn+ggnC+hfJoWdP1EvLsr9j8zQomxJdmmdJqcMgpkWLMUkQNE fQzkA3diUdZSaqDaWczaRIEivwq0pbIgqXvTRJPgGkOxebHw2i7OLjQUe2SagH7e9jCO g1SA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:cc:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=JSeBxtZ2GL2mQ23NNKvvB9FpZsNdyw7mCUIUXqAjbUk=; b=kdLHQcJUzUMgQVBatW63L6Cif4p8rokqqBcHCVTPpk6XuX04M65h+Y6dHx/+YGyjN9 lkmjBqy8Z60aDYbXeQC9seJGjX9quca42yjZdhws6Hm1PskcwvlAYUbyz7bR2E12JeBG /0JTua6nM9twIfq41yJs1p3lBsIQ7llMEXoxht/wfUpzut9iZ3x065CvArW9RvVx/Dgu zk6d8lQdrFqGSRF61gjg1wROivV85djSa9WTjwxWbBXPeUDMNuK6MTMipZF/CMfGGH3g re0EVhspc7pYLhzBi81xXiKNgoA6Xy57yFo8T/QtYJs+SjIY5gAuFixonI7VWT1+df0+ JxgA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tKcpzxGrKp7mtsky5QQdRqrJMBxlFm7+E9uejWK+mjt4Cmcq7EslkDtQ773bL4HbA== X-Received: by 10.66.76.132 with SMTP id k4mr7552774paw.22.1468358092863; Tue, 12 Jul 2016 14:14:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.43.100.29] ([50.233.148.158]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id h8sm6261235pfh.49.2016.07.12.14.14.51 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 12 Jul 2016 14:14:51 -0700 (PDT) To: "Burton, Ross" , Gary Thomas References: <5784A2D0.9030902@mlbassoc.com> From: akuster808 Message-ID: <57855DCA.1080807@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 14:14:50 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Cc: OE-core Subject: Re: Future of GCC X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 21:14:57 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 07/12/2016 01:15 AM, Burton, Ross wrote: > On 12 July 2016 at 08:57, Gary Thomas 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 > > >