[Buildroot] [PATCHv2] package/gcc: cleanup arch/cpu combinations

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Aug 20 12:24:17 UTC 2014


Dear Gustavo Zacarias,

On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 18:16:38 -0300, Gustavo Zacarias wrote:
> Cleanup arch/cpu combination limits, we had super-wide depends and it
> doesn't help readability.
> 
> Make the bool/depends/select order the same for all entries.
> 
> Drop redundant limitations, for example sparc* if sparc wasn't
> supported in general.
> 
> Power8 requires at least gcc 4.9.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo at zacarias.com.ar>

What do you think of a solution like:

  [Buildroot] [PATCH] toolchain/gcc: Introduce BR2_ARCH_HAS_GCC_x_y_PLUS

which Mischa Jonker posted a while ago (but didn't push strong enough
to get it merged) ?

Thanks,

Thomas
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