[Buildroot] Failing defconfigs due to GCC 6

[Mathieu Audat]

Hi Arnout,

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Arnout Vandecappelle" <arnout at mind.be>
> To: "Buildroot Mailing List" <buildroot at buildroot.org>, "Mathieu Audat" <mathieu.audat at savoirfairelinux.com>, "Fabio
> Estevam" <fabio.estevam at nxp.com>, "Nikolay Dimitrov" <picmaster at mail.bg>, "Fabio Porcedda" <fabio.porcedda at gmail.com>,
> "Sergio Prado" <sergio.prado at e-labworks.com>
> Sent: Friday, 11 August, 2017 09:20:31
> Subject: Re: Failing defconfigs due to GCC 6

> On 10-08-17 23:01, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
>>  Hi all,
>> 
>>  A number of defconfigs fail to build (usually the kernel, in one case U-Boot)
>> because of GCC 6. Some of these could be fixed by simply bumping the upstream
>> kernel; however, we really want defconfigs to be tested on an actual board,
>> otherwise there's not much point.
>> 
>>  I've put the people who have been involved in these defconfigs in To. Could you
>> look at these defconfigs and try to fix the build with GCC 6? Anything that
>> remains unfixed by the end of the month will probably be removed.
> 
> Looks like yesterday I missed a few:
> 
> riotboard_defconfig:
> https://gitlab.com/arnout/buildroot/-/jobs/28979360
> 
> telit_evk_pro3_defconfig:
> https://gitlab.com/arnout/buildroot/-/jobs/28979373
> 
> toradex_apalis_imx6_defconfig:
> https://gitlab.com/arnout/buildroot/-/jobs/28979374
> 
> ts4900_defconfig:
> https://gitlab.com/arnout/buildroot/-/jobs/28979376
> 

We still have this board, as you suggested a simple fix would be to bump the kernel.
I'll have a look this week and test it.

> 
> All of these seem to have a DTS in 4.11, so perhaps we can switch to upstream?
>

Indeed, that would be nice :)

> Regards,
> Arnout
> 
> 
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