[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] gcc: remove 4.5.x

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Thu Feb 25 09:57:28 UTC 2016


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:

 > Dear Peter Korsgaard,
 > On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 21:02:40 +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

 >> What do we do with our 4.5 based external toolchains and
 >> BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_5 (used by directfb)?

 > I think the BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_* must be kept for pretty much
 > all versions of gcc. This symbol is not related to whether we support
 > that gcc version in our internal toolchain backend or not. Possibly any
 > gcc version can be used with the external toolchain backend.

True, but we might consider removing preconfigured external toolchains
using ancient versions if there's sensible newer alternatives available.

-- 
Venlig hilsen,
Peter Korsgaard 



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