[Mesa-dev] [RFC 2/8] mesa: bump required GCC version to 4.1.0

[kallisti5]

On 2014-12-14 09:22, kallisti5 wrote:
> On 2014-12-14 08:45, Emil Velikov wrote:
>> On 12/12/14 11:46, Timothy Arceri wrote:
>>> Signed-off-by: Timothy Arceri <t_arceri at yahoo.com.au>
>>> ---
>>> 
>>>  Its been just under 5 years since the required version
>>>  of GCC was set at 3.3.0 at the time it was 7 years old.
>>> 
>>>  I'm proposing bumping it to 4.1.0 which is almost 9 years
>>>  old since its used in RHEL 5 which is still supported.
>>> 
>>>  For the record if it was set to 4.3.0 there would be
>>>  very few version checks needed at all.
>>> 
>> Nicely done Timothy.
>> 
>> Can we just get a confirmation from Alexander von Gluck IV. IIRC he
>> is/was building mesa with gcc 3.
>> 
>> Alexander, what were the details about the gcc 3 build ? I take it 
>> that
>> you'll be ok with moving to gcc 4.1.0+ ?
> 
> We'll be fine :-), we're using GCC 4.8.3 on our modern builds.
> 
> We are using GCC 2.9x for the "BeOS ABI compatible" builds, but we 
> forked
> Mesa 7.9.2 which seems to be the absolute last version of Mesa that 
> will
> compile under GCC 2.9x :-)
> 
> https://github.com/haiku/mesa_legacy
> 
> 
> Also, I sent an email about removing the SUNPRO C version checks, but 
> it seems
> like it was never delivered:

Nevermind, I just saw Timothy's response to that :-)

  -- Alex