[PATCH] Raise the minimum GCC version to 11.5 [BZ #32539]

[Aurelien Jarno]

On 2025-01-12 09:00, Sam James wrote:
> Some distros like Debian often linger on e.g. X.2 and then backport
> fixes. I don't know if this is a problem for 11 in reality. 

Fixes are backported indeed backported regularly in between minor
releases, but minor releases are still uploaded regularly. For instance
GCC 11 in Debian Sid is at 11.5, while it is at 11.3 in Debian
Bookworm.

> But such distributions probably won't be using trunk glibc anyway,
> though people might try to develop on it.

At least from the distribution point of view 2.40 is already build with
GCC 14.2, so that's not an issue at all.

The only minor concern is that backporting patches to older stable trees
might need additional changes in some cases, but that's nothing new,
just different versions involved.

Aurelien

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