[OE-core] qemuppc kernel doesn't build with GCC 4.9 on korgoth

[Pascal Bach]

>> On Jun 15, 2016, at 5:31 AM, Pascal Bach <pascal.bach at siemens.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I tried to build qemuppc on the latest korgoth branch using the GCC 4.9.3 from OE-core.
>>
>> The problem is that i get an error when trying to build the kernel.
>> I was able to trace the issue back to this commit:
>> https://github.com/openembedded/openembedded-core/commit/7a51776a830167e43cbd185505f62f328704e271
>>
>> And i can confirm that removing TARGET_CC_KERNEL_ARCH = "-mno-spe" from qemuppc.conf makes it work again.
>>
>> The question is how to best solve this?
>> Do the changes for GCC 5.3.0 that done in the commit mentioned above also need to be applied to 4.9?
>> Or is it just not supported to build qemuppc with GCC 4.9?
>>
> back port the gcc patch to 4.9
I just noticed it is already backported to 4.9 as 0049-Enable-SPE-AltiVec-generation-on-powepc-linux-target.patch
Is anybody else using a powerpc machine with Yocto2.1 and GCC4.9?

Regards
Pascal