From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2019 11:29:40 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v4 08/15] package/gcc: switch to gcc 8.x as the default In-Reply-To: <20190622214410.4bc6022e@windsurf> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Sat, 22 Jun 2019 21:44:10 +0200") References: <20190620100725.105587-1-giulio.benetti@micronovasrl.com> <20190620100725.105587-9-giulio.benetti@micronovasrl.com> <20190622214410.4bc6022e@windsurf> Message-ID: <8736k0fy4b.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni writes: Hi, > What do we do with the older gcc versions ? We now have 4.9, 5, 6, 7, 8 > and 9, which is quite a bit more than the normal number of 3 versions > we want to support. > Arnout: do you still think gcc 4.9 is needed at this point ? If it is > the case, should we keep gcc 4.9, but drop gcc 5 and 6 ? I know it is painful for people stuck on E.G. old bootloader/kernel versions, but I think it makes sense to slowly remove these old gcc versions, so E.G. by the time we release 2020.02 that we only support gcc 7/8/9. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard