[OE-core] GCC 8 hosts

[Burton, Ross]

Hi Joshua,

I do now, they're in poky-contrib:ross/gcc8.  The commit messages need
rewriting before merging to master.

Ross

On 25 April 2018 at 14:05, Joshua Watt <jpewhacker at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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