The Linaro Binary Toolchain ============================
The Linaro GCC 6.1-2016.08 Release is now available.
The GCC 6 Release series has significant changes from the GCC 5 release series. For an explanation of the changes please see the following website:
https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-6/changes.html
For help in porting to GCC 6 please see the following explanation:
https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-6/porting_to.html
Download release packages from:
http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.1-2016.08/ http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/6.1-2016.08/
Previous snapshots and release-candidates are at:
http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/
Previous releases are at:
http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/
Host Requirements ==================
Linaro officially supports the current and previous Ubuntu LTS releases (as of the time of this release). This does not mean that the toolchain will not work on other/older Linux distributions. See the following for the life-time of Ubuntu LTS releases.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases
The host system upon which the cross-compiler will run requires a minimum of glibc 2.14, because of API changes to glibc's memcpy API.
https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1869
Package Versions ================= Linaro GCC 6.1-2016.08
http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.1-2016.08/
FSF glibc 2.23 (linaro/2.23)
https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-08/msg00212.html
Linaro newlib 2.4.0-2016.03 (linaro-2.4-branch)
Linaro binutils 2.27 (linaro_binutils-2_27-branch)
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Ba=blob_plain%3Bf=...
FSF GDB 7.11 (binutils-gdb.git~gdb-7.11-branch)
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-02/msg00010.html
Linaro toolchain package git branches are hosted at:
http://git.linaro.org/?a=project_list&s=toolchain%2F&btnS=Search
NEWS for Linaro GCC 6.1-2016.08 ================================
* Include GNU Linker fix.
commit fbc6c6763e70cb2376e2de990c7fc54c0ee44a59 Author: Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com Date: Tue Aug 23 09:45:11 2016 +0100 Fix seg-fault in ARM linker when trying to parse a binary file.
* Copy the libwinpthread DLL into the bin directories so it gets into the tmp directory before tar is run.
https://review.linaro.org/#/c/13723/
* Include GNU Assembler fix for PR 20364
commit 5fe7ebe5ab43750abf8f490b785d99a1e598e7fd Author: Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com Date: Fri Aug 5 10:37:57 2016 +0100 Fix the generation of alignment frags in code sections for AArch64.
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20364
* Performance related backports from Linaro GCC 6.1-2016.06, and Linaro GCC 6.1-2016.07 have been included.
See the following Linaro GCC snapshots:
http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.1-2016.06/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.1-2016.07/
Contact Linaro ===============
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