With the fix to Bug 10832, the esdk installer will now install on all combinations of build and host gcc's but won't necessarily work there. We could: 1) add BUILD_HOST_GCC to the install script at build time and use this variable to 2) Check against the host gcc at install time.
fix has been sent for review: http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2017-January/131753.html
moved to M3. we're late for M2.
The patch has been merged to master.