Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 09:10:42PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote:
>> Since we're on the topic, I would like to switch to GCC 6 or 7 soon...
>> Are we agile enough to use the very latest GCC by default yet? :-)
>
> That would be nice to at least move to GCC 6. My aarch64 board is
> currently idle, I can see how well it works on my machine.

The main issue with GCC 6 is that we need to port the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
patches again.  But we might want to do that even if switching to 7.