On 2015-08-17 11:10:57, Bill Paul wrote: > Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, David Woodhouse had > to walk into mine at 11:00:23 on Monday 17 August 2015 and say: > > > On Mon, 2015-08-17 at 10:53 -0700, Jordan Justen wrote: > > > UNIXGCC and CYGGCC are GCC 4.3 & mingw based. Did this get tested? > > > > > > I think ELFGCC is unused at this point. (And has been since UnixPkg > > > was deprecated.) > > > > > > I think we should deprecate all three of these toolchains. I would > > > like to see us move them to BaseTools/Conf/tools_def.deprecated. I'll > > > add Larry to this email, because I think he disagrees with > > > deprecating > > > toolchains... > > > > > > If you make these changes and it breaks those toolchains, I don't > > > think we would be able to notice, because I don't think we test them > > > in our build pool anymore. To me this is all the more reason to move > > > them out of tools_def.template. > > > > I was building with UNIXGCC last week, to test LLP64 builds without the > > pain of actually having to deal with Windows. > > > > I'd rather see it updated to work with modern MinGW rather than > > deprecated. > > I use UNIXGCC with the cross-compiler toolchain generated by mingw-gcc- > build.py. Yes, I know the existing version of the script uses GCC 4.3.0. > That's why I made an updated version that uses 4.9.3: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/edk2/mingw-gcc-build.py > > I know you don't want to support this script, that's why I did the work for > you. :) Yes I've tested both IA32 and X64 builds. Yes they work fine. > > There is value in being able to bootstrap your own cross-build toolchain on > whatever platform. I don't think you should be so quick to remove it.
Can't you use an elf-based GCC4.9 with the GCC49 toolchain instead? I'm not sure it makes sense to 'upgrade' the UNIXGCC toolchain to be based on GCC 4.9 rather than 4.3. I think GCC 4.3 was implicitly part of the definition of the UNIXGCC toolchain. (Well, maybe explicitly if you count the comment in tools_def :) This is why I'd rather deprecate it as a toolchain, and use the GCC4X toolchains instead. -Jordan _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.01.org https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel
