From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gustavo Zacarias Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 10:49:14 -0300 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCHv2] package/gcc: cleanup arch/cpu combinations In-Reply-To: <20140820154213.00c239a8@free-electrons.com> References: <1408482998-24200-1-git-send-email-gustavo@zacarias.com.ar> <20140820142417.31c93ef2@free-electrons.com> <53F49408.3050701@zacarias.com.ar> <20140820154213.00c239a8@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <53F4A75A.1030505@zacarias.com.ar> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 08/20/2014 10:42 AM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Right, but I believe it's two different (but related) matters: > > * On one hand, Mischa's approach is good to specify starting from > which gcc version this or that architecture or architecture variant > was supported. It allows to encode the "theory". > > * On the other hand, additional 'depends on' can be added > exceptionally to prevent certain gcc versions from being selected, > when they are supposed to work in theory, but in practice do not > work due to bugs (that are likely to be fixed in the next point > release). True. My basic aim here was to make things more legible when i was putting a limit on power8 since it was too cluttered already with a single depends being 300 characters wide - hardly legible and very prone to mistakes/redundancy. I think we can commit this and "upgrade it" so to speak when Mischa's patchset is in to clean it up more. Regards.