Minimum GCC version for building glibc

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 11/04/2014 08:11 AM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> 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 Experience says the recommendation gets out of date (I don't think 4.6 is 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"?

I do.
 
> 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.

OK.

Cheers,
Carlos.