[Buildroot] [PATCH v4 08/15] package/gcc: switch to gcc 8.x as the default

[Thomas Petazzoni]

On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 12:07:18 +0200
Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti at micronovasrl.com> wrote:

> From: Romain Naour <romain.naour at gmail.com>
> 
> Even if gcc 7 is still maintained for some time (gcc 7.5 is pending),
> switch to gcc 8.x since it has been released since 2018-05-02 and
> gcc 9.x is available since 2019-05-03.
> 
> We have been having toolchains in the autobuilders with gcc
> 8.x for a while, so the vast majority of the problems should have
> already been solved.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti at micronovasrl.com>
> ---
> v3: rebase patch on top of master branch sha1:
>     04efb17c863606cdbc2405d01c3d48d6868c5245 (Giulio)
> ---
>  package/gcc/Config.in.host | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied to master, thanks.

What do we do with the older gcc versions ? We now have 4.9, 5, 6, 7, 8
and 9, which is quite a bit more than the normal number of 3 versions
we want to support.

Arnout: do you still think gcc 4.9 is needed at this point ? If it is
the case, should we keep gcc 4.9, but drop gcc 5 and 6 ?

Best regards,

Thomas
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