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.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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