[OE-core] [morty][PATCH v2] gcc6.4 upgrade

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 6:55 PM Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 6:25 PM, Bystricky, Juro
> <juro.bystricky at intel.com> wrote:
> > This was morty upgrade, which did not have those patches to begin with,
> I did not remove them.  The patches were not in rocko either, in the end I
> got them from master  (gcc6.4 was eventually removed completely),
> > Backporting of ARM specific patches was not the objective. ( I was not
> aware that 6.4 had an ARM specific regression which broke the pi3 builds).
> > Long story short, all patches should be there now, please review them,
> see the commit message for more details.
> > I'll make sure all other gcc6 upgrades contain the ARM patches as well.
>
> Comparing my morty branch (with update to gcc 6.4 by backporting
> incremental gcc updates from master) and today's morty-next (which
> updates gcc 6.2 -> 6.4 with a single commit) the only differences are:
>
>  - My branch lacks all the new x86 specific patches (OK, since they
> are appearing here first)
>
>  - Today's morty-next is lacking one patch, which was added to oe-core
> master as a backport (from gcc master) to gcc 6.3:
>
>
> http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=d2631f45a057c53797b7ba657662f35f66a2b04e
>
> I don't have any strong opinions on the patch, but presumably it fixed
> some issue Khem was seeing, it still applies cleanly to gcc 6.4 and we
> have it in rocko so on balance I'd say it should probably be in morty
> too.
>

Yes this patch fixes an arm regression

>
> Overall this looks great though and I'm very happy to see gcc updates
> landing in the release branches. Thanks Juro!
>
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