Talk:Toolchain

Please remove line "WARNING: Do not use the 4.8 gcc versions of the linaro toolchain, those seem to have issues building the kernel. Use an earlier version instead."

Since 03/2013 patches has been added and there is no problem with gcc 4.8 anymore!


 * Apart from the mainline, we also build the legacy sunxi-3.4 kernel. It doesn't have this fix, right? I've added a remark that mainline can be compiled with gcc-4.8.


 * I believe we have both of those commits; can anyone confirm gcc 4.8 builds linux-sunxi corrrectly and it boots fine? Turl (talk) 13:49, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Debian Stretch
It seems that Debian Stretch doesn't have a useful toolchain, as it no longer has a cross-compiler older than gcc 5, which fails to compile either the kernel or u-boot due to header incompatibilities. The toolchains from embedian won't install there. I'd suggest using Jessie for now, for which embedian versions are (apparently) working. JulesH (talk) 13:32, 12 August 2016 (CEST)