[Mesa-dev] oldest gcc version to support ?

[Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult]

On 04.08.2016 17:10, Jason Ekstrand wrote:

Hi,

> 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.

I'd guess they're using autoconf, correct ?

The stuff I'm talking about is just for scons builds, which AFAIK is
only for win32 / msvc. (see c99_compat.h)


--mtx