From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 12:03:58 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] ARC: bump tools to 2014.12 release In-Reply-To: <1422879584-18485-1-git-send-email-abrodkin@synopsys.com> References: <1422879584-18485-1-git-send-email-abrodkin@synopsys.com> Message-ID: <20150304120358.591484a9@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Alexey Brodkin, On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 15:19:44 +0300, Alexey Brodkin wrote: > Now when new shiny tools are released by Synopsys we're ready for > version update in Buildroot again. > > More details about arc-2014.12 release are available here: > https://github.com/foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors/toolchain/releases/tag/arc-2014.12 > > Following patches were removed from GCC since they are a part of release > now: > * 200-size_type_unsigned_int.patch > * 300-ptrdiff_type_int.patch > * 400-call-arc_hazard-before-branch-shortening.patch > * 401-fix-length-attribute-for-casesi_load-pattern.patch > * 402-fix-length-of-instructions-that-are-in-delay-slot-and-needs-to-be-predicated.patch > * 403-update-casesi_compact_jump-instruction-length.patch > > But since arc-2014.12 tools are still based on GCC 4.8 following patches > ar still relevant so moving to the new folder to match ARC gcc bump. > * 100-libstdcxx-uclibc-c99.patch > * 910-gcc-poison-system-directories.patch > > Binutils are still based on 2.23 so following patch still makes sense: > * 600-poison-system-directories.patch > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin > > Cc: Anton Kolesov > Cc: Thomas Petazzoni > Cc: Peter Korsgaard It seems like the update of GDB for ARC is causing some build problems: http://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/d62/d62f472d70f60281dfe94cffc46a3e0566fd4a3d/build-end.log It's trying to build a shared libbfd.so using a statically compiled libiberty.a which wasn't built with -fPIC. I don't know if the problem is specific to ARC GDB or not. Can you have a look? Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com