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Re: Require GCC 5 or later to build glibc (bug 23993)
- From: "Gabriel F. T. Gomes" <gabriel at inconstante dot eti dot br>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 16:54:50 -0200
- Subject: Re: Require GCC 5 or later to build glibc (bug 23993)
- References: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1812181809510.2407@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
On Tue, 18 Dec 2018, Joseph Myers wrote:
>In the NEWS entry, the requirement for a newer GCC version for
>powerpc64le is reiterated (as in the entry for the 4.9 requirement in
>2.26) to avoid suggesting the version requirement there has gone down.
Thanks for writing this.
>Tested for x86_64.
On powerpc64le, it still complains that GCC 5 is not enough, as expected.
>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.
Looks good to me.