Bug#772602: [sh4]: Please use default compiler instead of gcc-4.7

2014-12-08 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Package: linux Version: 3.16.7-2 Severity: normal Hello! On sh4, the kernel package is still built with gcc-4.7 by default since both gcc-4.8 and gcc-4.9 were not built on sh4 until recently. This has now been resolved and both gcc-4.8 and gcc-4.9 are now readily available on sh4 to build the ke

Bug#772602: [sh4]: Please use default compiler instead of gcc-4.7

2014-12-08 Thread maximilian attems
On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 01:44:42AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On sh4, the kernel package is still built with gcc-4.7 by default > since both gcc-4.8 and gcc-4.9 were not built on sh4 until recently. > > This has now been resolved and both gcc-4.8 and gcc-4.9 are now > readily ava

Bug#772602: [sh4]: Please use default compiler instead of gcc-4.7

2014-12-08 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/09/2014 02:05 AM, maximilian attems wrote: > the compiler change better be boot tested, was it? Well, the kernel package doesn't currently build on sh4 because gcc-4.7 was built with the m4-nofpu configuration missing [1]. So, I assume it's better to have an untested kernel than no kernel a

Bug#772602: [sh4]: Please use default compiler instead of gcc-4.7

2014-12-13 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/09/2014 02:42 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 12/09/2014 02:05 AM, maximilian attems wrote: >> the compiler change better be boot tested, was it? > > Well, the kernel package doesn't currently build on sh4 because > gcc-4.7 was built with the m4-nofpu configuration missing [1]. FY