[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 1/2] mesa: bump required GCC version to 4.4.0

[Timothy Arceri]

On Tue, 2016-01-26 at 14:24 -0800, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Timothy Arceri
> <timothy.arceri at collabora.com> wrote:
> > The last time this was bumped we settled on 4.2.0 because OpenBSD
> > wasn't willing to ship anything greater than 4.2.1 (as that was the
> > last GPLv2 licensed version) however they now ship 4.9.3.
> 
> I suspect they ship 4.9.3 in ports but 4.2.1 in the base system, and
> they'll want to build Mesa with 4.2.1 because Mesa is part of the
> base
> system. 

I see. So I guess I shouldn't trust Distrowatch :-P although I did look
at the OpenBSD release notes but I see now after you have pointed out
how it works that GCC 4.8/9 are listed under ports. 

> (Excuse the potentially incorrect terminology. I've never used
> OpenBSD).
> 
> Cc'ing Jonathan Gray for clarification.