[oe] chromium 40.0.2214.91 doesn't like gcc5.3

[Khem Raj]

Update is long due so please work on upgrade. X86 and arm are most
interesting platform. Please post it with RFT and lets give interested devs
a chance to try it out
On Dec 31, 2015 7:11 PM, "Trevor Woerner" <twoerner at gmail.com> wrote:

> The version of chromium we're using is a bit old (it's almost a year old
> now) and I thought that maybe a newer version might have the required
> fixes in it already. Along those lines I tried updating the recipe to
> build chromium-49.0.2607.0 which was released December 30, 2015. As it
> turned out 49.0.2607.0 didn't have any fixes for gcc-5.3, I ran into the
> exact same build problems I had seen building 40.0.2214.91 with gcc-5.3.
> But, for fun, I thought it would be worth seeing if I could get
> 49.0.2607.0 to build and, patch after patch, I not only got it building
> but I have also run-time tested it on my turbot. These patches, by the
> way, adjust the code and don't simply turn off compiler warnings/errors.
>
> I haven't tried getting 40 to build, but seeing that I have 49 building
> (and running) I was wondering if I should work on getting 40 to build (I
> assume most of the patches I developed for 49 will probably be the same
> for 40) or should I just concentrate on updating the recipe to 49 and
> getting that to work?
>
> There's a lot of wayland-specific stuff in the recipe and I've never
> built or run a wayland image, so if I'm going to work on making sure my
> recipe for 49 works it'll take a bit of time for me to wrap my head
> around the wayland stuff. Also, from what I can tell, the Linaro people
> use their own branch/version for their ARM builds[1] so I'm wondering
> how much testing people would need to accept such an update?
>
>
>
>
> [1] https://github.com/ndechesne/qcom-oe-manifest/blob/master/default.xml
>
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