On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 08:08:39AM -0600, Adam Ford wrote:

Tom,

I know that we need GCC 6 or newer to compile GCC, but buildman is still using older toolchains.

Do you know if there are plans to update buildman to use newer toolchains? It seems to be linked to kernel.org, but it seems strange to me to have the build-in tools like Buildman use a toolchain that we are not allowed to use for compile.

So, there've been some effort to make buildman fetch toolchains from the free-electrons toolchain site, but they're not going to be ready for v2018.01. I should note in the release email that if nothing else, the Linaro toolchains are available via tarball in a static manner as it's what travis uses.