Re: [PATCH 01/42] gcc: Add gcc6 recipes

[Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>]

On Wed, 01 Jun 2016 10:20:23 Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Tue, 31 May 2016 11:12:21 Jussi Kukkonen wrote:
> > On 11 May 2016 at 20:35, Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > +#BASEURI ?= "${GNU_MIRROR}/gcc/gcc-${PV}/gcc-${PV}.tar.bz2"
> > > +BASEURI ?= "git://
> > > github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc;branch=gcc-6-branch;protocol=git"
> > 
> > I guess this is where git2_github.com.gcc-mirror.gcc.tar.gz download comes
> > from? It increased the size of my downloads-directory by >30% -- and I
> > must
> > have quite a bit of old junk in that directory already.
> > 
> > Is there no other solution to this than a 2.5G git copy (honest question,
> > I
> > don't know gcc)?
> 
> We went down this road before and it wasn't great for users. There is at
> least a tarball for 6.1, we'd presumably need some patches on top of that
> (~43 if we were to simply take what's in the gcc-6-branch between 6.1 and
> bd9a826, minus the "daily bumps").

Perhaps that was a little unclear - when I say "we went down this road before" 
I'm agreeing with Jussi - we pointed to a git branch in a previous release 
with the same resulting huge download for everyone, something I think we 
should avoid if at all possible.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre