[oe] [OE-core] [RFT] GCC 4.8 recipes

[Elvis Dowson]

Hi Khem,

On Mar 28, 2013, at 9:51 AM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:

> All,
> 
> I have added gcc 4.8 recipes and the branch is here 
> 
> git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core-contrib kraj/gcc-4.8
> 
> cgit
> 
> http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core-contrib/log/?h=kraj/gcc-4.8
> 
> Please test it out on your respective environments if you can.
> 
> To enable gcc 4.8 with OE-Core you would
> 
> in local.conf set
> 
> GCCVERSION = "4.8%"
> 
> and if you use angstrom. Please checkout 'next' branch of setup-scripts
> and then in conf/local.conf
> 
> set
> 
> ANGSTROM_GCC_VERSION = "4.8%"
> 
> My testing so far has been building systems-image for all qemu machines and they
> seem to boot as good as 4.7 did. But I am hoping for wider testing and finding issues
> or very least improve the existing recipes for now and once the 1.4 release is done
> we can then propose it for inclusion in OE-Core
> 
> Thanks for your time

I've built and tested the new gcc-4.8.0 recipe for the Xilinx ZC702 Zynq-7020 platform
(dual ARM Cortex A9). The kernel (3.6) and corresponding rootfilesystem boots fine.

Best regards,

Elvis Dowson