[PATCH] toolchain: gcc: Remove support for GCC 5

[Rosen Penev]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 5:14 PM Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de> wrote:
>
> On 12/16/20 1:21 AM, Paul Spooren wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mi, Dez 16, 2020 at 00:24, Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de> wrote:
> >> GCC was used in 17.01 as the default compiler the last time. We do not
> >> test this old GCC version any more and there are some known problems it
> >> fails to compile the U-Boot for the Allwinner A64 SoC.
> >>
> >> Just remove it to make it clear that we will not support this old GCC
> >> version any more.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de>
> >> ---
> >
> > Acked-by: Paul Spooren <mail at aparcar.org>
> >
> > This goes hand in hand with Petrs gcc6+ patches.
> >
> > I'm wondering if these major version requirement changes should happen
> > before or after the 20.x change, I'd like the former.
>
> In do not want to support gcc 5 in the next major release and think we
> should remove this before branching. I am still unsure about gcc 7.
Some packages in the packages feed do not build with GCC7. gerbera
comes to mind (requires GCC8 because of C++17).
>
> Hauke
>
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