[poppler] Moving up our "minimum" Linux base

[Lewis G Rosenthal]

Greetings...

On 02/03/19 11:48 am, William Bader wrote:
> CentOS 7 has gcc 4.8.5, and I think that RHEL 8 is still in beta.
>
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> *From:* poppler <poppler-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org> on behalf of Adam 
> Reichold <adam.reichold at t-online.de>
> *Sent:* Sunday, February 3, 2019 10:44 AM
> *To:* poppler at lists.freedesktop.org
> *Subject:* Re: [poppler] Moving up our "minimum" Linux base
> Hello Albert,
>
> Am 03.02.19 um 14:39 schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> > Right now our minimum Linux base as "guaranteed" by the gitlab CI is
> > Ubuntu 14.04. Since that is going out of support even by Canonical
> > this April I'd like to move that "minimum" to Ubuntu 16.04.
> >
> > Particularly that means we could start requiring features available in 
> gcc 5.4
> >
> > Anyone against this?
>
> Didn't you mention some company-internal regression test runners that
> would still tie us to GCC 4.9?
>
> > Cheers,
> >   Albert
>

On OS/2 (and ArcaOS, by extraction), we are generally using 4.9.2. We have 
newer gcc builds available (7.3?), but this is the current standard for us. 
A bump to a 5.4 requirement could be somewhat problematic. I've sent some 
inquiries to those with more firsthand knowledge than I.

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Lewis
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