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

[Paul Eggleton]

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").

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre