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Re: compiler standards (and/or min gcc version) supported with installed headers ?
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot com>
- To: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org,Carlos O'Donell <carlos at systemhalted dot org>
- Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:54:42 +0100
- Subject: Re: compiler standards (and/or min gcc version) supported with installed headers ?
- References: <201212282357.52390.vapier@gentoo.org> <50E7036E.9050107@suse.com> <201301041356.01561.vapier@gentoo.org>
On Friday, January 04, 2013 13:56:00 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 04 January 2013 11:29:34 Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > * glibc needs a recent GCC compiler version to build itself (right
> > now>
> > "requires GCC version 4.3 or newer to build; GCC 4.6 is
> > recommended.")
> >
> > ...
> >
> > - The header files for glibc use GCC 4.3 as baseline for
> >
> > optimizations
>
> should we just lock this version to whatever version we have locked
> for building ? i.e. when we start requiring a newer gcc to build
> (e.g. 4.8), we also say that we use that as the baseline for
> optimizations ?
Good idea. Do you have a proposal for a wording?
Andreas
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