Re: [gccsdk] Recommended autobuilder/packages/etc distros

Theo Markettos wrote on Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:20 AM:

> A few questions regarding the current situation of GCCSDK and the
> autobuilder packages, because I haven't been keeping up to date:

> 1. What's the recommended host distro for building GCC and autobuilder
> packages? Debian, Ubuntu? What version?
> 2. What's the recommended source feed for autobuilder packages? Debian,
> but is it squeeze, wheezy, testing, sid...?
> (IIRC the autobuilder will try and use the host distro, but it might be a
> good idea to decouple these)

I assume someone else will be able to answer these.

> 3. What's the recommended GCC for building autobuilder packages? I'm
> assuming 4.1.2 as the stable compiler - but are there UnixLib patches in
> 4.7
> that some packages need?

I haven't any authority here, but I'd would like to suggest the autobuilder
packages are moved on to use 4.7 from now on. I've already been doing
this after discussion on this group when rebuilding packages as I add
the new components field. I am also in the process of working through
starting to add shared library packages to the autobuilder and to
simplify things these will all need to be generated with 4.7.

As part of this I'm looking at the packaging of the native compiler
for 4.7. So it would be nice if we were able to do a release of that
as well when I'm finished (but other people would know it's current
state).

Regards,
Alan



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