[OE-core] GCC 8 hosts

[Joshua Watt]

On Wed, 2018-04-25 at 13:11 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just thought I'd say that GCC 8 is going to start appearing in the
> wild, I believe the first distro to ship with it will be Fedora 28.
> As usual there are changes in behaviour so there are several
> problems.
> So far I've identified the following issues:
> 
> * Python 2 crashes on startup
> * Kernel tools fail to build
> * grub fails to build
> * ovmf fails to build
> 
> I've patches locally for all but the ovmf failure (which is a pain
> because the source uses CRLF) so if anyone switches to a GCC 8 host
> before they're merged and wants to help, you know where to find me.

Do you have a branch with the patches somewhere so we can try them out?

> 
> Ross