External toolchain reliance

[Brooks Davis]

On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 09:40:38PM -0500, Eric van Gyzen wrote:
> Which architectures are still often built with an external toolchain? I'd like to re-commit jemalloc 5.2.1.  It was reverted because "compilation fails for non-llvm-based platforms."  I just built tinderbox worlds with 5.2.1 with no problems, albeit with llvm.

We generally expect to support all platforms on gcc6 and (hopefully soon)
gcc8 or gcc9.  You can test the former with the by installing
amd64-xtoolchain-gcc and setting CROSS_TOOLCHAIN=amd64-gcc when building
world.

-- Brooks
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