aaron.ballman added a comment. In D156286#4544631 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D156286#4544631>, @MaskRay wrote:
> In D156286#4534968 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D156286#4534968>, @aaron.ballman > wrote: > >> There's a mention on the RFC thread that Ubuntu 18.04 still ships with GCC >> 7.3. That's an LTS release but it EOLed just last month, so it's not clear >> how disruptive this would be. (To be clear, I'm not saying I'm opposed to >> the changes.) > > The entire 16.x releases `LLVMAnalysis` cannot be built with GCC 7.3, so this > CMake change shouldn't be a larger disruption to any GCC <= 7.3 user. > And we should get the GCC bump patch into 17.x so that users will not get > confused by the supportness. > > The question is whether we bump to 7.4 or 7.5. I'd prefer 7.5, as there > appears to be more users on 7.5 and can verify that 7.5 works reliably. > > There is a user who prefers 7.4 but 7.5 works for them. > https://discourse.llvm.org/t/require-gcc-7-5-as-gcc-7-3-cannot-build-llvm-16-x-or-main/72310/29 > says that Ubuntu 18.04 (End of Standard Support in June 2023) gets GCC 7.5 > updates. Okay, it sounds like the changes won't be particularly disruptive then, so this is reasonable to me. Thank you! ================ Comment at: llvm/docs/GettingStarted.rst:284-298 `python <http://www.python.org/>`_ >=3.6 Automated test suite\ :sup:`2` `zlib <http://zlib.net>`_ >=1.2.3.4 Compression library\ :sup:`3` `GNU Make <http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/make>`_ 3.79, 3.79.1 Makefile/build processor\ :sup:`4` =========================================================== ============ ========================================== .. note:: ---------------- Repository: rG LLVM Github Monorepo CHANGES SINCE LAST ACTION https://reviews.llvm.org/D156286/new/ https://reviews.llvm.org/D156286 _______________________________________________ cfe-commits mailing list cfe-commits@lists.llvm.org https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cfe-commits
