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libxzr / Notes on GCC 7.x+ for Android.md
Created December 23, 2018 04:32 — forked from nathanchance/Notes on GCC 7.x+ for Android.md

Introduction

Google has traditionally been against upgrading the compiler as it comes with new warnings and potentially changes behavior. However, these are actually good reasons to upgrade, they help shake out undefined behavior.

Process

In order to compile with a newer version of GCC, you'll need to do a few modifications to your kernel in addition to a new toolchain. I recommend using the ones available from Bootlin.

  1. Remove gcc-wrapper and any instances of -Werror: gcc-wrapper is CAF's shitty way of enabling -Werror, which is unnecessary since regular -Werror will suffice. We need to remove it for the time being because there will be new warnings to fix. Pick Google's revert of it (3.18, 4.4) then remove any other instances of -Werror (such as in prima, qcacld-2.0, and qc
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libxzr / How to merge latest caf tag
Last active August 6, 2021 13:57 — forked from DD3Boh/gist:6c51fd3c5f91b1042e956771483714de
CAF upstream
First go here:
https://wiki.codeaurora.org/xwiki/bin/QAEP/release
This site gives information about all msm soc release details with tag + android version
Search your msm here.. Check the latest one and look for correct android version and mark that tag.
Now open one of the following links (dependent on your linux kernel version)