Require GCC 4.4 or later to build glibc

Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org
Thu Jun 27 00:55:00 GMT 2013


On Wednesday 26 June 2013 18:20:25 Roland McGrath wrote:
> > This patch doesn't change anything about the version *recommendation*,
> > but in my view we should just refer to the current stable GCC release
> > rather than naming a specific version.
> 
> Agreed.  Each individual release can say somewhere that goes into the
> tarball what the latest version it has been built and tested with at the
> time of release is.

we have that info somewhat in the wiki with the testing results matrix.  i 
don't like having static released tarballs refer to a wiki entry that can go 
away in X years, but maybe i'm just pessimistic.
-mike
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