Minimum GCC version for building glibc

[Joseph Myers]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2014, Carlos O'Donell wrote:

> > * Should 4.6 or 4.7 be the minimum?
> 
> GCC 4.7 please.

> > * 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 Experience says the recommendation gets out of date (I don't think 4.6 is 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.

Do you mean "GCC 4.7 or newer"?

So far we have you and Paul Eggert saying 4.7 as minimum, while David 
Miller is using 4.6 and no-one else has commented.

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Joseph S. Myers
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