[oe] [RFC] Toolchain recipes, versions, removal and consolidation

[Khem Raj]

On (01/11/10 12:36), Tom Rini wrote:
> Khem Raj wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >There are so many versions of toolchain components gcc/binutils/glibc that
> >we have in metadata. I would like to reduce the number and keep supporting
> >the ones we really use. Right now we have recipes for
> >
> >binutils = 2.14.90.0.6,2.14.90.0.7, 2.15.94.0.1, 2.16, 2.16.1, 2.16.91.0.6,
> >2.16.91.0.7, 2.17, 2.17.50.1, 2.17.50.0.5, 2.17.50.0.8, 2.17.50.0.12, 2.18,
> >2.18.50.0.7, 2.18.atmel.1.0.1, 2.19, 2.19.1, 2.19.51, 2.19.51.0.3, 2.20,
> >2.20.1, cvs
> >
> >gcc = 3.3.3, 3.3.4, 3.4.3, 3.4.4, 3.4.6, 4.0.0, 4.0.2, 4.1.0, 4.1.1, 4.1.2,
> >4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.2.3, 4.2.4, 4.3.1, 4.3.2, 4.3.3, 4.3.4, 4.4.1, 4.4.2,
> >4.4.4, 4.5, csl-arm-2007q3, csl-arm-2008q1, csl-arm-2008q3
> >
> >glibc = 2.2.5, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.3.5+cvs20050627, 2.5, 2.6.1, 2.9, 2.10.1,
> >cvs
> >
> >uclibc = 0.9.28, 0.9.29, 0.9.30, 0.9.30.1, 0.9.30.2, 0.9.30.3, 0.9.31, git
> >
> >
> >eglibc = 2.9, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12, svn
> 
> For flexibility in out of tree projects, I'd like to see us keep at
> least for binutils 2.18 and newer (official releases) and one each
> of the H.J. Lu releases (.5x.y.z) for folks that need that.
> Similarly for gcc, 4.2.4, 4.3.4, 4.4.4 and one of the csl's.  For
> glibc, 2.9 and newer?  For uclibc maybe we can drop 0.9.30.[12] if
> they aren't pinned.
> 
> But I fear this won't help your concern as much since often fixing
> up for say gcc 4.2.4 fixes it up for 4.2.1 and 4.2.2 and 4.2.3, and
> so forth.

Well my intention is to keep the versions that we can build and maintain.
I plan to rework the .inc file mess once we have limited the versions to
support

> 
> -- 
> Tom Rini
> Mentor Graphics Corporation
> 
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