[oe] commit 4d6a63850b4dc7ca2f060aedda26ddf4efa0e5cc

[Tom Rini]

Koen Kooi wrote:

> +PREFERRED_VERSION_gcc-cross = "4.1.2"
> +PREFERRED_VERSION_gcc-cross-initial = "4.1.2"
> +PREFERRED_VERSION_gcc-cross-intermediate = "4.1.2"
> +PREFERRED_VERSION_binutils = "2.17.50.0.12"
> +PREFERRED_VERSION_binutils-cross = "2.17.50.0.12"
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> do NOT belong in a machine.conf (or machine include). Those belong in
> the distro (or local.conf), not in the machine.

Just putting this out there (and it's indeed _not_ how things are 
today).  Why would we not want to move towards having this kind of stuff 
be in the tune-ARCH.inc file, when a specific version is really needed 
(more avr32 or new'ish core on an existing overall arch) ?  Yes, it 
should be up to the distro to say "we want 4.4.x + 2.20.x" or whatever, 
but then we also get the downside of "special case, XXXX only works well 
with 4.3.4 + 2.19.x" or what have you, and those special cases get 
introduced in one place and copy/pasted elsewhere.

-- 
Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation