On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 5:06 PM, Andre McCurdy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 10:21 PM, akuster808 <[email protected]> wrote: >> why do we continue to maintain 2 versions of gcc? > > Probably the same reason why Buildroot continues to maintain 4 > versions of gcc, it's useful for end users. > > https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/tree/package/gcc
We keep all user space and toolchain up to date so upgrading the GCC is straightforward. That said the gcc cannot vary from one machine to another so if a vendor wants to use an old release, it can be done using their distro. I am against maintaining two GCC versions as it increases the amount of testing needed. Instead I'd prefer to have clang merged on oe-core instead and easy its adoption / test. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems http://www.ossystems.com.br http://code.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 (53) 9981-7854 Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750 -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
