[Mesa-dev] oldest gcc version to support ?

[Jason Ekstrand]

On Aug 4, 2016 2:57 AM, "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <
enrico.weigelt at gr13.net> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
>
> which is the oldest gcc version we need to support ?
>
> I see certain quirks for pre 4.4.5 - my Ubuntu Trusty box
> (now over 2 years old) already has 4.8 ... can we remove
> that stuff ?

The BSDs are still stuck at 4.2+patches for licensing reasons and they use
Mesa for graphics.  I think at some point, they'll get clang in core and
they can start building with that. There are ancient RHEL versions where
the GCC version is so old that they build a newer GCC just so they can
build Mesa.  One of these days, we'll move past GCC 4.2 but for now it's
not too much of a burden to keep it working.

--Jason

> (anyways, it's just for non-autoconf builds)
>
>
> --mtx
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