On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 05:16:57PM -0400, Brian Hutchinson wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > TOOLCHAIN_TYPE=internal will build the toolchain from sources.
>> >
>> >
>> >> I build everything using Yocto 1.5 last year and remember having
>> >> issues building 3.12 with the toolchain built by Yocto.  If I remember
>> >
>> > Hmm, not sure about the issues with the upstream toolchain. Another option
>> > would be to use Linaro toolchain - either external or internal. The only 
>> > catch
>> > is that Linaro is not directly targeting or supporting ARM9 platforms. So, 
>> > any
>> > support requests would have to go to upstream GCC.
>> >
>>
>> Ah, now I'm with you.  So if I set TOOLCHAIN_TYPE=internal, is it
>> building the same toolchain that would be built if I had used Yocto
>> (upstream gcc I'm assuming although I admit I never dug into it) or
>> something else?
>
> Correct, it would build the toolchain from the sources available. Default is
> of course OE-Core - gcc 4.9 in master and 4.8 in daisy.
> But if you have meta-linaro-toolchain layer in your stack, you can specify
> to build that one instead:
>
> GCCVERSION ?= "linaro-4.8%"
> BINUVERSION ?= "linaro-2.24%"
> EGLIBCVERSION ?= "linaro-2.19%"
>
> That would build the Linaro toolchain from sources.
>
>
>> Should I try again with the latest external Linaro?  Just wondering
>> what may be the best option since I've been out of the ARM9 scene for
>> a while but now have to update a bunch of our stuff for a new release.
>
> If you use TOOLCHAIN_TYPE=external and TOOLCHAIN_BRAND=linaro (both are the
> defaults for meta-arago), then it will use the external Linaro toolchain. We
> are currently using 2013.03 that is gcc-4.7 based. We've had some issues with
> 2014.03, gcc-4.8 one.

Awesome!  Thanks guys.  I'll give some of that a try and test some
options and see if we see any weirdness.

Regards,

Brian
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