Hi, On Aug 14, 2012, at 1:55 PM, Koen Kooi wrote:
> Op 13-08-12 22:28, Elvis Dowson schreef: >> Hi, I've created a set of patches to add retired toolchain support for >> gcc-4.5.1, to the meta-openembedded/toolchain-layer. > > Given that 4.5.x was deleted from meta-toolchain 3 months ago[1], what's > the rationale for adding it back? It's still available in the denzil branch, > so unless someone steps up to maintain it I'm inclined to say "no" to > patches bringing it back in the master branch. The gcc-4.5 recipe was adapted from the gcc-4.5.1 recipe from the denzil branch. The structure of the newer gcc-4.7 recipes in the current poky/master branch are a bit different from the older recipes in the denzil branch. So, while developing the gcc-4.5 recipes, I started with the existing gcc-4.7 templates, and looked at the gcc-4.6 recipes in the current meta-openembedded/toolchain-layer and incorporated all the patches for gcc-4.5.1 from the denzil branch. This way the gcc-4.5 recipe would be compatible with builds against the current poky/master branch, and take advantage of all the newer recipe versions, in the current poky/master branch, while maintaining legacy support for the gcc-4.5.1 toolchain. The problem I ran into was with support for soft-float on the PowerPC440 processor. If I can isolate the issue, and get it to work with gcc-4.6 or gcc-4.7, there is no need to add legacy gcc-4.5 toolchain support to the toolchain-layer. If not, then it would be required to maintain support, atleast for PowerPC 440 targets with soft-float. Best regards, Elvis Dowson _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
