[Buildroot] [PATCHv2] core: support host gcc of the future

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Wed Oct 24 15:56:23 UTC 2018


>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> writes:

 > When we do a release, we know only of a set of gcc versions that the
 > host may have. But in the future, distributions with newer gcc versions
 > may show up.

 > Currently, we do not recognise those versions, and thus we do as if they
 > were older than the oldest we know of. This means that a set of packages
 > become unselectable, when they should be.

 > We fix that be capping the detected version to the highest we know of.

 > Reported-by: gargar_ on IRC
 > Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
 > Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>
 > Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be>

 > ---
 > Changes v1 -> v2:
 >   - use a variable to store the highest version we know of  (Arnout)

Committed to 2018.02.x and 2018.08.x, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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