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Re: Require GCC 4.3 or later to build glibc

From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at systemhalted dot org>
Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, Marek Polacek <polacek at redhat dot com>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:33:22 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: Require GCC 4.3 or later to build glibc
References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1202232058250.26967@digraph.polyomino.org.uk><CADZpyixi08UoGBH1CzM=MRBnhfyJXZw+p4JfzKVJn3YNZFXs7A@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 24 Feb 2012, Carlos O'Donell wrote:

> > 2012-02-23 ?Joseph Myers ?<joseph@codesourcery.com>
> >
> > ? ? ? ?* configure.in (CC): Restrict allowed GCC versions to 4.3 and
> > ? ? ? ?later. ?Allow versions 5-9.
> > ? ? ? ?* manual/install.texi (Tools for Compilation): Give GCC 4.3 as
> > ? ? ? ?required minimum version and 4.6 as recommended version. ?Do not
> > ? ? ? ?mention bugs in GCC 2.7 and 2.8.
> 
> What about INSTALL?

It appears current practice is not to mention regeneration of generated 
files (such as INSTALL and configure) in ChangeLogs.  We could discuss 
changing that to something more like GCC and Binutils, where the logs do 
say "Regenerate." for generated files.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com

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References:
- Require GCC 4.3 or later to build glibc
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- Re: Require GCC 4.3 or later to build glibc
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