[ELDK] eldk-5.5.2 issues

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

On Fri 2014-10-24 12:02:21, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <20141023145122.GA10650 at amd> you wrote:
> > 
> > Eldk-5.5 seems to miscompile u-boot on altera socfpga (arm board), so
> > I tried updating to eldk-5.5.2... but I ran into problems compiling
> > u-boot-mkimage.
> 
> The compilers used in ELDK V5.5 and v5.5.x (and even v5.6) have known
> issues at least on the PowerPC and ARM architectures;  the ARM kernel
> might even blacklist it, see [1].
> 
> So I doubt your problems will go away when moving from ELDK v5.5 to
> v5.5.2; if you cannot fall back to ELDK v5.4 (gcc 4.7.2) you will have
> to wait for ELDk v5.7 (gcc 4.9.1).

I did not manage to switch to v5.5.2, but it seems that ELDK v5.5
contains fully working gcc-4.7 toolchain.

As they are known problems with gcc-4.8, perhaps it makes sense to
merge something like below for eldk v5.5.3 (and maybe eldk v5.6)?

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel at denx.de>

Best regards,
									Pavel


diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/tcmode-default.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/tcmode-default.inc
index fb41d5e..df90219 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/tcmode-default.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/tcmode-default.inc
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/${TARGET_PREFIX}libc-initial = "${TCLIBC}-initial"
 PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/nativesdk-${SDK_PREFIX}libc-initial = "nativesdk-${TCLIBC}-initial"
 PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/gettext ??= "gettext"
 
-GCCVERSION ?= "4.8%"
+GCCVERSION ?= "4.7%"
 SDKGCCVERSION ?= "${GCCVERSION}"
 BINUVERSION ?= "2.23.2"
 EGLIBCVERSION ?= "2.18"

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