[OE-core] gcc 5.2 failures

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 15-07-27 09:52 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-07-27 at 09:20 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> On 15-07-27 05:30 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>> I've run a gcc 5.2 test build on the autobuilder:
>>>
>>> http://errors.yoctoproject.org/Errors/Search/?items=10&query=3628c3c06fa4195003ac655bcc791acfac775173&limit=50
>>>
>>> 41 errors (with a few more pending).
>>>
>>> The good news is that if we tweak the security flags, the poky-lsb gcc,
>>> elfutils, coreutils and iptables issues can be removed and I have a
>>> patch for this. This leaves:
>>>
>>> 3.14 kernel failures for edgerouter, genericx86-64, qemuarm, beaglebone,
>>> mpc8315e-rdb
>>
>> Gah. I had all these building with 5.1 .. chasing gcc is a pain
>> with this older kernel.
>
> I'm not sure if this is a 5.1 verses 5.2 issue or not. I'm starting to
> wonder if the SRCREVs we're using pull in the gcc 5.x fixes?

Hmm. True enough, I'll double check, since I did have everything
building against 5.1 about a week ago.

>
> E.g. one of the failures was:
>
> /home/pokybuild/yocto-autobuilder/yocto-worker/nightly-arm-lsb/build/build/tmp/work-shared/beaglebone/kernel-source/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h:106:30: fatal error: linux/compiler-gcc5.h: No such file or directory
>
> which doesn't look "5.2".
>
>>> Bruce: How do you want to handle the 3.14 issues? Switch to 4.1? or fix
>>> 3.14?
>>
>> Now that 4.1 is in place, and I can't really see a large user base that
>> needs gcc 5.x with the linux-yocto 3.14 kernel (other folks using
>> master with their own kernel's will obviously have to deal with the
>> issue in their trees) .. join that with the fact that we need to update
>> all the reference boards to 4.1 anyway, my suggestion is that we open
>> bugs for the h/w reference updates (and I'll get the appropriate Wind
>> River eyes on them) and walk away from burning more cycles on gcc 5.x
>> and the 3.14 kernel.
>
> That seems reasonable to me, assuming we don't have an easy SRCREV fix
> we've just missed/lost somehow...

I'll get back to you on that one, I'm turning 5.x back on in my
local builds.

Bruce

>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>