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

["David F." <df7729@gmail.com>]

I uses VS2008


On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 4:38 AM Gao, Liming <liming.gao@intel.com> wrote:

> 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
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