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

[Dave Airlie]

On 27 January 2016 at 08:04, Timothy Arceri
<timothy.arceri at collabora.com> wrote:
> From: Timothy Arceri <t_arceri at yahoo.com.au>
>
> 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.
>
> As far as I can tell the oldest distro still using a current version
> of Mesa is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 which ships with 4.4.7.

Just to note internally we now build our RHEL6 mesa on 4.8 I think,
due to having to make llvm build.

Though the tinderbox still uses the system compiler once I migrate
it to a machine which hasn't got a busted disk.

Dave.