[Buildroot] [PATCH 00/10] Proposals of deprecation/removal, mainly affecting toolchain
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Jul 1 20:08:00 UTC 2014
Dear Waldemar Brodkorb,
On Tue, 1 Jul 2014 20:36:14 +0200, Waldemar Brodkorb wrote:
> > This set of patches proposes a certain number of deprecation or
> > removal. They are mostly independent from each other:
> >
> > - Deprecation of the AVR32 architecture.
> > - Removal of old binutils versions
> > - Removal of uClibc 0.9.32.1
> > - Removal of gcc 4.3.x and 4.6.x
> > - Removal of gdb 7.4 and 7.5
> > - Removal of busybox version selection
> >
> > Let me know what you think about those various proposals.
>
> I would even suggest to switch binutils to 2.24 as default.
> I had no problems with 2.24 for a long time on different
> architectures. It is not so problematic as gcc, where I am more
> conservative, too.
Yes, I was also thinking about doing this, but since it's really
bumping the default version of a component and not just
removing/deprecating old versions, my plan was to do it as part of
another patch series.
Thomas
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