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Re: Minimum GCC version for building glibc
- From: David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>
- To: carlos at redhat dot com
- Cc: joseph at codesourcery dot com, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 12:36:44 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Minimum GCC version for building glibc
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From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 11:09:41 -0400
> On 10/31/2014 10:03 AM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
>> * Should we give a recommendation for a specific version or "X or newer",
>> or just specify the minimum without a separate recommendation?
>> Experience says the recommendation gets out of date (I don't think 4.6 is
>> really likely that widely used for building glibc now), and none of the
>> other components come with such a recommendation in install.texi.
>
> I think "GCC 4.6 or newer" is good enough.
FWIW, I've been using gcc-4.6 exclusively for all of my sparc work
over the past few years.
It's simply what happens to be the default in debian 7.0 on Sparc.