Bumping binutils and gcc

[Chris Johns]

On 20/07/2018 04:47, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 1:40 PM, Sebastian Huber
> <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de <mailto:sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de>>
> wrote:
> 
>     ----- Am 19. Jul 2018 um 17:53 schrieb joel joel at rtems.org
>     <mailto:joel at rtems.org>:
> 
>     > Hi
>     > 
>     > Just curious if it was time to bump binutils to 2.31
>     > and gcc to 8.1 (or 8.2 when out) for the targets
>     > that we can.
> 
>     How does this get us closer to a RTEMS 5.1 release? At least for ARM and
>     PowerPC it is a bit of work to upgrade to GCC 8+. I would do this after the
>     release.
> 
> 
> I don't have any idea except that it means the GCC we pick has a longer support
> life left.
> Chris should comment but he is expected to be largely offline until late next week.

Back for now and hoping I am not called away for a while at least.

I need to get back to 4.10 and then 4.11 before I get to 5.1 and 4.10 and 4.11
has become a little more complicated with the rtems-tools back porting request
by Joel (see #3469, #3467).

> 
> I see 88 tickets in process or new so there are lots of hold ups at the moment.
>  

I think some tickets can be reviewed and either moved to 6, the next dot release
or closed.

I will reach out this week to people in various timezones to see if we can get
the ticket count down.

Please review the 4.10, 4.11 and 5 milestones and update, comment or close any
tickets you can? It all helps.

Thanks
Chris