From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 23:22:53 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] gcc: Use upstream GCC 7.2 for ARC In-Reply-To: <20171109215648.15975-1-abrodkin@synopsys.com> References: <20171109215648.15975-1-abrodkin@synopsys.com> Message-ID: <20171129232253.007d1550@windsurf.home> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 00:56:48 +0300, Alexey Brodkin wrote: > It turned out with vanilla upstream GCC 7.2 stuff could be built > for ARC, what's more we may even build Linux kernel with rootfs > and get it all running perfectly fine so why not use that? > > Essentially GCC from SNPS GitHub still has a lot of fixes and improvements > most of which will be a part of the next upstream release but let's see > how it goes and if we see vanilla GCC doesn't require way too many > back-ported patches we'll be able to get rid of SNPS GitHub here at all. > > As of today the only really required back-port is the one for non-uClibc > libc. > > Back-ported from upstream master with help of: > -------------------->8-------------------- > git format-patch 927c0132251f -1 -- . ':!gcc/ChangeLog' ':!libgcc/ChangeLog' > -------------------->8-------------------- Applied to next after tweaking the commit log and commit title. Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com