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Re: Require GCC 6.2 or later to build glibc
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 22:28:58 +0100
- Subject: Re: Require GCC 6.2 or later to build glibc
- References: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1901312045560.1258@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
* Joseph Myers:
> Thus, this patch increases the minimum to 6.2, removing the
> documentation of the separate requirement for powerpc64le. It does
> not remove the powerpc64le configure test, or any __GNUC_PREREQ that
> could be removed as not being in installed headers or files shared
> with gnulib; I think such cleanups are best done separately.
Agreed.
> 2019-01-31 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
>
> * configure.ac (libc_cv_compiler_ok): Require GCC 6.2 or later.
> * configure: Regenerated.
> * manual/install.texi (Tools for Compilation): Update minimum GCC
> version.
> * INSTALL: Regenerated.
Patch looks okay to me, thanks.
Florian