This seems to have suddenly resurfaced. I Was told on irc:
> yes, patching gcc is rather fraught because the source is shared between gcc-cross and gcc-cross-initial
> if you make sure that the SRC_URIs are identical (i.e. have the same patches) for all the recipes that use the same area in work-shared then you should be ok. if they are different then any amount of badness may ensue.
However, we have same SRC_URI for all (set in gcc-linaro-4.8.inc).
This seems to have suddenly resurfaced. I Was told on irc:
> yes, patching gcc is rather fraught because the source is shared between gcc-cross and gcc-cross-initial
> if you make sure that the SRC_URIs are identical (i.e. have the same patches) for all the recipes that use the same area in work-shared then you should be ok. if they are different then any amount of badness may ensue.
However, we have same SRC_URI for all (set in gcc-linaro- 4.8.inc) .