[fedora-arm] armv5tel F15 toolchain update

[Henrik Nordström]

tor 2011-09-29 klockan 20:33 +0100 skrev Daniel Drake:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:

> http://dev.laptop.org/~dsd/20110929/binutils-2.21.51.0.6-7.fc15.1/
> This is binutils-2.21.51.0.6-7.fc15 from f15 updates, with a patch
> added. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=741053
> I hope to get this into mainline fedora as an update in the next few
> days (just pestered the maintainer again)

We just ran into the same issue on armv7hl and found that mentioned
patch have finally been integrated mainline.  We will be pulling in
binutils-2.21.51.0.6-9.fc15 to armv7hl to address this.

It seems to be a very very thin line where it triggers. We have two
identical gcc with only cosmetic specfile differences where one triggers
it while building ghc while the other do not.

> and now that all the above is ready, I'm building the mainline F15 RPM
> against it:
> http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/gcc/4.6.1/9.fc15/src/gcc-4.6.1-9.fc15.src.rpm
> Should finish over the weekend! fingers crossed.

Hope so.

In armv7hl we just found that the GCC we have which we thought were just
with a minor patch actually diverge significantly from mainline. Seems
the gcc-4.6.1-4.fc15 we have is not at all gcc-4.6.1-4.fc15 but rather a
git version after -3 but before -4 and with quite a lot of arm hackery,
no changelog notices and no tag in Release. This needs to be
investigated and cleaned up as we don't know yet how much of those
changes are in 4.6.1-9 or which of those changes should even be there.

Regards
Henrik