[Buildroot] [PATCH 4/5] docs/manual: bump our gcc/g++ requirements to 4.8

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Sun Oct 27 09:04:41 UTC 2019


>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> writes:

 > Currently, we only require a gcc 4.4 version, which nowis pretty old
 > (released in April 2009). This requirement is not even tested nowadays,
 > with our oldest autobuilder having a 4.7 version only.

 > And even then, 4.7 is still old enough that it prevents us from
 > upgrading some packages. For example cmake 3.10+ requires C++11
 > constructs that were only added in gcc 4.8 (when C++11 support was
 > finally completed in gcc).

 > So, update our requirements to gcc at least 4.8.

 > Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
 > Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>
 > Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be>
 > Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>

Committed, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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