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Re: Require GCC 5 or later to build glibc (bug 23993)
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 19:45:51 +0100
- Subject: Re: Require GCC 5 or later to build glibc (bug 23993)
- References: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1812181809510.2407@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
* Joseph Myers:
> 2018-12-18 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
>
> [BZ #23993]
> * configure.ac (libc_cv_compiler_ok): Require GCC 5 or later.
> * configure: Regenerated.
> * manual/install.texi (Tools for Compilation): Update minimum GCC
> version.
> * INSTALL: Regenerated.
Patch looks okay to me.
However, can we keep support/ at a GCC 4.9 level for some time? This
will simplify backporting to glibc 2.27 and 2.28. I expect to backport
regularly to these branches for about a year, maybe longer, particularly
for glibc 2.28.
Thanks,
Florian