Require GCC 4.3 or later to build glibc
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
Fri Feb 24 17:33:00 GMT 2012
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.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
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