[Mesa-dev] [RFC 6/8] mesa: remove support for GCC older than 4.1.0

[Timothy Arceri]

On Tue, 2014-12-16 at 22:58 -0800, Vinson Lee wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Jonathan Gray <jsg at jsg.id.au> wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 09:09:27PM +1100, Timothy Arceri wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2014-12-12 at 07:01 -0600, kallisti5 wrote:
> >> > On 2014-12-12 05:46, Timothy Arceri wrote:
> >> > > Signed-off-by: Timothy Arceri <t_arceri at yahoo.com.au>
> >> > > ---
> >> > >  src/mesa/main/compiler.h | 2 +-
> >> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >> > >
> >> > > diff --git a/src/mesa/main/compiler.h b/src/mesa/main/compiler.h
> >> > > index 34671dc..cdc843d 100644
> >> > > --- a/src/mesa/main/compiler.h
> >> > > +++ b/src/mesa/main/compiler.h
> >> > > @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ extern "C" {
> >> > >   * inline a static function that we later use in an alias. - ajax
> >> > >   */
> >> > >  #ifndef PUBLIC
> >> > > -#  if (defined(__GNUC__) && __GNUC__ >= 4) || (defined(__SUNPRO_C) &&
> >> > > (__SUNPRO_C >= 0x590))
> >> > > +#  if defined(__GNUC__) || (defined(__SUNPRO_C) && (__SUNPRO_C >=
> >> > > 0x590))
> >> > >  #    define PUBLIC __attribute__((visibility("default")))
> >> > >  #    define USED __attribute__((used))
> >> > >  #  else
> >> >
> >> > Why not also drop the SUNPRO_C version check?
> >> >
> >> > #  if defined(__GNUC__) || defined(__SUNPRO_C)
> >> >
> >> > I downloaded SunStudio 12 (circa 2007) and __SUNPRO_C is set to 0x590.
> >> > If we drop support for GCC 4.1 (2007), might as well drop older sun
> >> > compilers.
> >>
> >>
> >> The series is dropping support for GCC 4.0. 4.1 is shipped with Redhat
> >> Enterprise Linux 5 which is still in support so I've set that as the
> >> minimum version.
> >
> > It is worth pointing out OpenBSD ships a patched GCC 4.2.1 as the base
> > compiler as that was the last GPLv2 licensed version.  Not relevant this
> > time, perhaps it will be next time.
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> 
> Latest master doesn't build with GCC 4.1.
> 
> glsl/ir_uniform.h:45: error: use of enum ‘gl_uniform_driver_format’
> without previous declaration

My reasoning for using 4.1 seems to be flawed as RHEL 5 comes with
autoconf 2.59 by default and current Mesa requires 2.60. Maybe bumping
GCC to 4.2 would be better. I assume the above issue doesn't happen on
4.2 since OpenBSD uses it?