On Aug 2, 2012, at 11:37 PM, Elvis Dowson <elvis.dow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > In poky master, the current version of gcc is 4.7.2. If I have a > situation, where I need to revert back to using gcc-4.5.1, how can I do this > cleanly? > > Perhaps some of the issues that I'm facing with getting my root filesystem > image booting on my Xilinx ML507 development board (Virtex 5 PowerPC 440 > processor) might be related the new gcc-4.7.2 release. I think you should really debug it. such statements are very coarse grained. you have to add debug messages to various stages and see where is it hanging. may be build a static bash and use that as init and debug the init sequence from there. > > At the moment, I've had to delete my entire build, switch to the > bernard-5.0.2 tag, and then attempt to try and build a new rootfilesystem. > Others have successfully built and got linux running on my target board, with > bernard-5.0, about a year ago. > > So, if it does indeed turn out that I need to use an older version of gcc, > for my target, what should I do, to continue working with the poky master > repo, but only use the older gcc-4.5.1 release? If you are willing to support 4.5.1 in your layer that will work for you. e.g. toolchain-layer has 4.6 retired into it. So try that one too. > > Some options that I can think of are: > > a. Reintroduce the older gcc-4.5.1 recipes in a local branch, but that would > mean others would not be able to reproduce my work on their machines. > a lot has changed in toolchain are so keep that in mind. You can start with original recipes in bernhard and back port bits from master. > b. Use bernard-5.0.2 to build the toolchain, and set things up so that it > uses that as an external toolchain. this might work well. > > I don't think both the options are elegant, so if someone could offer any > suggestions it would be great. > > Best regards, > > Elvis Dowson > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
