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

[Hauke Mehrtens]

On 12/16/20 4:00 AM, Rosen Penev wrote:
> 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).

Thanks for the information, I do not see this as a problem.
The older compiler versions could be used to check if a problem also 
existed with the older compiler version, but if not everything compiles 
on the older versions this is fine with me. We switched to GCC 8 in 
October 2019, so more than a year ago, I do not expect there many 
regressions which we haven't found yet.

Hauke

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