Bug#878356: cross-gcc-dev should support gcc-8
Helmut: are you satisfied that this works? The patch set is in-place, and it applies. There were problems building the packages, and I haven't looked into that yet. I don't know how much of these patches you actually use. If you don't see these failures, then I'm inclined to close this bug. It'd be great to get everything working, but since you're the only consumer of these, as far as I know, I'd rather use my limited cycles to fix something else. If, however, that IS getting in your way, do tell me, and I'll fix it.
Bug#878356: cross-gcc-dev should support gcc-8
Package: cross-gcc-dev Severity: important User: helm...@debian.org Usertags: rebootstrap Please add support for gcc-8. That can have multiple forms, each of which has its own benefit: a) Just copy the gcc-7 patches to gcc-8 and hope for the best. b) Make the patches apply to the gcc-8 source package. c) Verify that a cross compiler can be built. a) has close to zero effort, b) likely takes an hour or so and c) longer. If you can do b), that'd be very useful already, but even a) helps. I'm happy to file followup bug reports with patches. The earlier we start, the less work we'll have. Go go. Helmut
Bug#878356: cross-gcc-dev should support gcc-8
I just uploaded a new build of cross-gcc-dev. The patches apply and I can build a set of cross-compiler packages for HOST=armhf. Something's odd, and the packages aren't currently installable (clashing files in /usr/share/doc in the gcc-8 and cpp-8 packages). I'm looking into that.
