[Buildroot] [for-next 3/3] package/gcc: remove gcc 4.9

[Romain Naour]

Hi All,

Le 14/06/2017 à 09:06, Peter Korsgaard a écrit :
>>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:
> 
>  > Hello,
>  > On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 07:30:26 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> 
>  >> Yeah, that's another reason: if we remove 4.9 from master, than we will not get
>  >> any fixes for it that could be applied to the LTS branch. But, well, I don't
>  >> think we're testing with 4.9 at all in the autobuilders so the point is kind of
>  >> moot.
> 
>  > We are testing 4.9 in the autobuilders. I rebuilt the pre-built
>  > toolchains a few days ago. We had two gcc 4.8 toolchains, which I moved
>  > to 4.9 toolchains. I always try to make sure we have a few "old"
>  > toolchains, and at least one "bleeding edge" one, just to test more
>  > configurations.
> 
> Sorry, yes indeed - I forgot about your recent mail. We still don't (and
> can't) test all binutils/gcc/gdb/linux headers/libc combinations.
> 
>  > Also, we still have much older external toolchains: remember the recent
>  > ICU breakage caused by ICU requiring gcc 4.8 ? If such breakage
>  > occurred, it's because we do have toolchains with gcc's older than 4.8.
> 
> Yes, but this discussion was explicitly about support in the internal
> toolchain handling for old gcc versions.
> 

I've removed this patch from patchwork.

Best regards,
Romain