Re: [RFC] Remove unused tool chain configuration in BaseTools/Conf/tools_def.template

["Gao, Liming" <liming.gao@intel.com>]

Leif:
  Thanks for your suggestion. I will work out the patch set serials to remove those tool chains. I don't remember the usage model of UNIXGCC. II will wait for Rebecca response. 

Thanks
Liming
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leif Lindholm [mailto:leif.lindholm@linaro.org]
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2018 7:57 PM
> To: Gao, Liming <liming.gao@intel.com>
> Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org; Laszlo Ersek (lersek@redhat.com) <lersek@redhat.com>; afish@apple.com; Kinney, Michael D
> <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>; Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bluestop.org>
> Subject: Re: [RFC] Remove unused tool chain configuration in BaseTools/Conf/tools_def.template
> 
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 02:42:35PM +0000, Gao, Liming wrote:
> > Hi, all
> >   tools_def.template includes all tool chains. Some are not used any
> >   more. And, there is no verification for them. So, I propose to
> >   remove them. They are VS2003, VS2005, VS2008, VS2010, DDK3790,
> >   UNIXGCC, GCC44, GCC45, GCC46, GCC47, ELFGCC, CYGGCC, ICC, ICC11,
> >   MYTOOLS. If you still use some one of them, please let me know.
> 
> This sounds good to me.
> 
> However, may I suggest splitting this up into several patches, such
> that if we need to revert one of the deletions, we would not need to
> reinstate all of them.
> 
> I would propose:
> - One patch for VS20nn
> - One patch for GCCnn
> - One patch for UNIXGCC, ELFGCC, CYGGCC
> 
> I can't really judge what a suitable mashup/split between DDK3790,
> ICC, ICC11, and MYTOOLS would be.
> 
> On a sidenote, I think Rebecca said at least FreeBSD were using
> UNIXGCC(?) since the plain GCC toolchain profiles did not support
> cross compiling. I am pretty sure that is not accurate these days -
> did you look into that after the community call?
> 
> Regards.
> 
> Leif