[oe] [OE-core] [yocto] [RFT] GCC 6 Recipes

[Khem Raj]

> On Apr 28, 2016, at 8:19 AM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:
> 
> On 4/28/16 2:10 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
>> 
>>> On Apr 27, 2016, at 11:06 AM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 4/27/16 12:53 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
>>>> thanks I think most of them come to these categories. So any help in
>>>> fixing them is welcome.
>>>> 
>>>> 1. kernel older than 4.4, backport needed fixed into these branches or
>>>> move to newer kernels.
>>>> 2. uboot dont have gcc6 compiler header files, backport the needed fixes
>>>> 2. meta-qt4 needs to use gnu++98
>>>> 3. gcc6 providing its own stdlib.h in libstdc++
>>>> 4. gcc6 swtiching to gnu++14 for C++ as default.
>>>> 5. GPLv2-only versions of recipes are simply old will need fixing
>>> 
>>> From a -very- brief look, I suspect each of these fixes will be fairly simple.
>>> So as we move into the next oe-core phase, we should be able get through this
>>> pretty quickly.
>> 
>> I think yes, they are trivial, except the GPL-2.0 packages which might need patching
>> 
> 
> Ha, actually that was what I was referring to.  The couple I looked at seemed to
> be trivial.. :)

yes they are just the fact that compiler has gone stricter compliance with standards compared
to when code was written. In worst case we might downgrade -std for these recipe but that
may not be enough in some cases
> 
> If someone doesn't get to it first, I expect some of my guys will in about a month.
> 

OK cool. I think we should make it merge worthy and get it early into master and fix the fallouts


> --Mark

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