[OE-core] [RFT] GCC 4.8 recipes

[Khem Raj]

On Mar 29, 2013, at 1:13 AM, Elvis Dowson <elvis.dowson at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 

Thanks, 

> Best regards,
> 
> Elvis Dowson