Yocto Jethro: How to choose a Yocto Default Compil

Question

Because of old Das u-boot from HEAD branch that do not have gcc 5 yet, I am planning on using gcc 4.8 or 4.9 as a default compiler instead of 5.2.

GCC required virtual/libc glibc-2.22. glibc-2.22 complied successfully with 5.2. Unfortunately, it failed at do_compile with the error: ld: cannot find -lgcc with gcc 4.8 and 4.9

arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc  -march=armv7-a -marm  -mthumb-interwork -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon -mtune=cortex-a9 --sysroot=/yocto/hio-jethro/build-hio/tmp/sysroots/hio-imx6dl-board-tcbootstrap   -nostdlib -nostartfiles -r -o /yocto/hio-jethro/build-hio/tmp/work/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/glibc/2.22-r0/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/elf/librtld.map.o '-Wl,-(' /yocto/hio-jethro/build-hio/tmp/work/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/glibc/2.22-r0/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/elf/dl-allobjs.os /yocto/hio-jethro/build-hio/tmp/work/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/glibc/2.22-r0/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/libc_pic.a -lgcc '-Wl,-)' -Wl,-Map,/yocto/hio-jethro/build-hio/tmp/work/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/glibc/2.22-r0/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/elf/librtld.mapT
/yocto/hio-jethro/build-hio/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi.gcc-cross-initial-arm/../../libexec/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi.gcc-cross-initial-arm/gcc/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/5.2.0/ld: cannot find -lgcc
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [/yocto/hio-jethro/build-hio/tmp/work/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/glibc/2.22-r0/build-arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/elf/librtld.map] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[2]: Leaving directory `/yocto/hio-jethro/build-hio/tmp/work/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/glibc/2.22-r0/git/elf'
make[1]: *** [elf/subdir_lib] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/yocto/hio-jethro/build-hio/tmp/work/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/glibc/2.22-r0/git'
make: *** [all] Error 2
ERROR: oe_runmake failed

Am I looking at the right error? and How do I add -lgcc?

Edit: I have checked with Fido Branch and everything is working fine. I might just need replace gcc and glibc with Fido's

Answer 1

How did you tell it to use GCC 4? The paths are still referencing 5.2.0, which suggests that you didn't change it correctly. The correct way to change GCC version is to set GCCVERSION, ie GCCVERSION="4.%".

Also u-boot in jethro supports gcc5 just fine, so why are you using an old release?