[Buildroot] [git commit] toolchain-external: update Linaro ARM toolchain
Peter Korsgaard
jacmet at uclibc.org
Fri Oct 11 13:05:35 UTC 2013
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:
Hi,
>> If a user wants to stick to a given eglibc and gcc version, and Linaro
>> updates eglibc without updating gcc, then that user will have to do
>> something special. I think it's not realistic for us to handle this in
>> a clearer way than Linaro does, except by providing a 'custom version'
>> option.
Thomas> Ok. From an user perspective, I'm not quite convinced that it
Thomas> makes more sense to index according to the gcc release than the
Thomas> binutils, gdb, or eglibc version, or the EABI, or something
Thomas> else, but ok, fair enough.
Well, I would argue that the gcc version in general is more important /
has higher impact than the binutils or gdb versions. hard/softfloat
means seperate toolchains (or multilib), so that leaves the eglibc
version.
I agree that ignoring the eglibc version is probably good enough.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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