On 2008.03.27. 23:03:59 Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > is there any inherent difficulty in bumping up the software versions > of the toolchain components? say, binutils to 2.18 and gcc to 4.2.3? > i realize you can always do that *manually* but if those values are > the *defaults*, it's more likely that people will use them and will > identify build problems if they exist. > > i think it's more valuable to push the toolchain along, just so if > there are issues hiding in the newer versions, they're identified as > quickly as possible. >
The reason why we stick to 4.1.2 is simply the fact that it compiles good code. 4.2 is broken on ARM, misscompiles some stuff on x86, not to mention that probably noone tested all platforms out there. We slowly bumb toolchain versions when the toolchain is known to work nicely for some time for a developer. Imre _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org http://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
