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Re: RFC: requiring GCC >= 4.7 to build glibc
- From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 14:00:36 -0700
- Subject: Re: RFC: requiring GCC >= 4.7 to build glibc
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On 08/24/2015 01:28 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
I think we can be less conservative about
version requirements for GCC and binutils than for the Linux kernel.
Yes.
My two cents: I'd be more aggressive than what you proposed last week.
GCC 4.8 is no longer actively maintained upstream, right? So it should
be OK to require 4.9
Admittedly I'm more of a bleeding-edge guy....