gcc default version change (and qt4)

I'd like to warn people that I'm pretty close to throwing the version switch to default to gcc 4.7 at the same time as merging in Khem's patches. I don't think this will surprise anyone, we've talked about doing it post release for long enough.

It also appears that qt 4.7.4 has issues with gcc 4.7 and 4.8.1 is fixed so I'm going to change the default version on that at the same time.

Since the tests on the autobuilder are looking pretty good now, I'll probably do this sooner than later, maybe on Monday.

I'll probably then give it a week, then assuming no reason to change back to the older version, I'll remove gcc 4.6 and qt 4.7.4 from OE-Core. They may get added to meta-oe's toolchain layer at that point but that is up to the appropriate maintainers.

Op 27 apr. 2012, om 13:39 heeft Richard Purdie het volgende geschreven:

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I'd like to warn people that I'm pretty close to throwing the version switch to default to gcc 4.7 at the same time as merging in Khem's patches. I don't think this will surprise anyone, we've talked about doing it post release for long enough.

It also appears that qt 4.7.4 has issues with gcc 4.7 and 4.8.1 is fixed so I'm going to change the default version on that at the same time.

Since the tests on the autobuilder are looking pretty good now, I'll probably do this sooner than later, maybe on Monday.

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I'll probably then give it a week, then assuming no reason to change back to the older version, I'll remove gcc 4.6 and qt 4.7.4 from OE-Core. They may get added to meta-oe's toolchain layer at that point but that is up to the appropriate maintainers.

FWIW angstrom will be using 4.5 for 'denzil' and 4.7 for 'master'. No 4.6 anywhere :)