[Buildroot] Prebuilt ARC tools are way too old

[Buildroot] Prebuilt ARC tools are way too old

[Alexey Brodkin]

Hi Thomas,

May I kindly ask you to create a newer prebuilt ARC toolchain
which uses arc-2018.09 GNU tools?

arc-2018.09 is based on GCC 8.2 and has a bunch of fixes as compared to
older tools.

As of today the latest prebuilt ARC tools are br-arcle-hs38-full-2018.11-rc1.tar.bz2
and it's still based on arc-2018.03 (GCC 7.x based).

What's more in ARC config fragment even older tarball is mentioned 
https://git.buildroot.org/buildroot/tree/support/config-fragments/autobuild/br-arcle-hs38.config#n6

Probably there's not much sense in updating br-arcle-hs38.config with still obsolete
tools and better wait before GCC 8.x based tools are available in prebuilt form.

-Alexey

P.S. Please pardon for bugging you on that topic but we continue to get Autobuilder
     reports with failures which doesn't happen with newer tools and so just
     pollute Autobuilder logs.

[Buildroot] Prebuilt ARC tools are way too old

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello Alexey,

On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 08:13:11 +0000
Alexey Brodkin <alexey.brodkin@synopsys.com> wrote:

> May I kindly ask you to create a newer prebuilt ARC toolchain
> which uses arc-2018.09 GNU tools?
> 
> arc-2018.09 is based on GCC 8.2 and has a bunch of fixes as compared to
> older tools.
> 
> As of today the latest prebuilt ARC tools are br-arcle-hs38-full-2018.11-rc1.tar.bz2
> and it's still based on arc-2018.03 (GCC 7.x based).
> 
> What's more in ARC config fragment even older tarball is mentioned 
> https://git.buildroot.org/buildroot/tree/support/config-fragments/autobuild/br-arcle-hs38.config#n6
> 
> Probably there's not much sense in updating br-arcle-hs38.config with still obsolete
> tools and better wait before GCC 8.x based tools are available in prebuilt form.

Thanks for pinging me on this! I'll rebuild the toolchain with 2018.11
for now, and once 2019.02-rc1 is released, I'll rebuild again.

Thanks,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

[Buildroot] Prebuilt ARC tools are way too old

[Alexey Brodkin]

Hi Thomas,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 4, 2019 11:26 AM
> To: Alexey Brodkin <alexey.brodkin@synopsys.com>
> Cc: ARC Maintainers <arc-buildroot@synopsys.com>; buildroot at buildroot.org
> Subject: Re: [Buildroot] Prebuilt ARC tools are way too old
> 
> Hello Alexey,
> 
> On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 08:13:11 +0000
> Alexey Brodkin <alexey.brodkin@synopsys.com> wrote:

[snip]

> > Probably there's not much sense in updating br-arcle-hs38.config with still obsolete
> > tools and better wait before GCC 8.x based tools are available in prebuilt form.
> 
> Thanks for pinging me on this! I'll rebuild the toolchain with 2018.11
> for now, and once 2019.02-rc1 is released, I'll rebuild again.

Cool, thanks!
Are you going to update the config fragment as well or should I do it myself?

-Alexey

[Buildroot] Prebuilt ARC tools are way too old

[Thomas Petazzoni]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 08:27:43 +0000
Alexey Brodkin <alexey.brodkin@synopsys.com> wrote:

> Cool, thanks!
> Are you going to update the config fragment as well or should I do it myself?

I'll do it as part of deploying the toolchains.

Thanks!

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

[Buildroot] Prebuilt ARC tools are way too old

[Alexey Brodkin]

Hi Thomas,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 4, 2019 11:33 AM
> To: Alexey Brodkin <alexey.brodkin@synopsys.com>
> Cc: ARC Maintainers <arc-buildroot@synopsys.com>; buildroot at buildroot.org
> Subject: Re: [Buildroot] Prebuilt ARC tools are way too old
> 
> On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 08:27:43 +0000
> Alexey Brodkin <alexey.brodkin@synopsys.com> wrote:
> 
> > Cool, thanks!
> > Are you going to update the config fragment as well or should I do it myself?
> 
> I'll do it as part of deploying the toolchains.

Great, thanks!

-Alexey