[OE-core] [PATCH 01/42] gcc: Add gcc6 recipes

[Paul Eggleton]

On Thu, 02 Jun 2016 18:05:35 Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 10:23:35AM +1200, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > On Wed, 01 Jun 2016 10:20:23 Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > > On Tue, 31 May 2016 11:12:21 Jussi Kukkonen wrote:
> > > > On 11 May 2016 at 20:35, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > +#BASEURI ?= "${GNU_MIRROR}/gcc/gcc-${PV}/gcc-${PV}.tar.bz2"
> > > > > +BASEURI ?= "git://
> > > > > github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc;branch=gcc-6-branch;protocol=git"
> > > > 
> > > > I guess this is where git2_github.com.gcc-mirror.gcc.tar.gz download
> > > > comes from? It increased the size of my downloads-directory by >30% --
> > > > and I must have quite a bit of old junk in that directory already.
> > > > 
> > > > Is there no other solution to this than a 2.5G git copy (honest
> > > > question, I don't know gcc)?
> > > 
> > > We went down this road before and it wasn't great for users. There is at
> > > least a tarball for 6.1, we'd presumably need some patches on top of
> > > that (~43 if we were to simply take what's in the gcc-6-branch between
> > > 6.1 and bd9a826, minus the "daily bumps").
> > 
> > Perhaps that was a little unclear - when I say "we went down this road
> > before" I'm agreeing with Jussi - we pointed to a git branch in a
> > previous release with the same resulting huge download for everyone,
> > something I think we should avoid if at all possible.
> 
> Maybe it's biggest but at least there is only one copy of it:
> 
> top 10 in my downloads (archives and then git clones).
> 
> 823M    /OE/downloads/git2_git.yoctoproject.org.linux-yocto-3.14.git.tar.gz
> 831M    /OE/downloads/git2_git.yoctoproject.org.linux-yocto-3.10.git.tar.gz
> 893M    /OE/downloads/git2_git.yoctoproject.org.linux-yocto-3.17.git.tar.gz
> 934M    /OE/downloads/git2_git.yoctoproject.org.linux-yocto-3.19.git.tar.gz
> 969M    /OE/downloads/git2_git.yoctoproject.org.linux-yocto-4.1.git.tar.gz
> 1.2G    /OE/downloads/git2_git.yoctoproject.org.linux-yocto-dev.git.tar.gz
> 
> 2.4G    /OE/downloads/git2_github.com.gcc-mirror.gcc.tar.gz
> 
> 854M    /OE/downloads/git2/github.com.qtproject.qtwebengine-chromium.git
> 
> 877M    /OE/downloads/git2/git.yoctoproject.org.linux-yocto-3.10.git
> 900M    /OE/downloads/git2/git.yoctoproject.org.linux-yocto-3.14.git
> 921M    /OE/downloads/git2/git.yoctoproject.org.linux-yocto-3.17.git
> 964M    /OE/downloads/git2/git.yoctoproject.org.linux-yocto-3.19.git
> 999M    /OE/downloads/git2/git.yoctoproject.org.linux-yocto-4.1.git
> 1.3G    /OE/downloads/git2/git.yoctoproject.org.linux-yocto-dev.git
> 2.3G    /OE/downloads/git2/git.yoctoproject.org.linux-yocto-4.4.git

No argument from me there - it does seem a little wasteful given that there 
must be a huge overlap between those repos.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre