[OE-core] [PATCH 6/7] gcc6: Upgrade to 6.4

[Otavio Salvador]

On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 5:06 PM, Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 10:21 PM, akuster808 <akuster808 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> why do we continue to maintain 2 versions of gcc?
>
> Probably the same reason why Buildroot continues to maintain 4
> versions of gcc, it's useful for end users.
>
>   https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/tree/package/gcc

We keep all user space and toolchain up to date so upgrading the GCC
is straightforward.  That said the gcc cannot vary from one machine to
another so if a vendor wants to use an old release, it can be done
using their distro.

I am against maintaining two GCC versions as it increases the amount
of testing needed. Instead I'd prefer to have clang merged on oe-core
instead and easy its adoption / test.

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