<bo...@mozilla.com> wrote: > In summary: Officially make gcc-4.7 our minimum supported version. Fx38 and > 39 don't compile with 4.6 and none of the GNU/Linux package maintainers I > have contacted have any major concerns over dropping it.
I propose that either: (1) GCC 4.8 be made the minimum supported version immediately, or (2) The trychooser tool should be extended to make it possible to build with GCC 4.7 on any platforms where it is supported, and bootstrap.py be updated to install GCC 4.7 alongside the currently-installed compiler. I greatly prefer option (1). It is very inconvenient to have a minimum supported compiler version that we cannot even do test builds with using tryserver. Note that recent Ubuntu releases make it very easy to install GCC 4.8 but not so easy (AFAICT) to install other versions like GCC 4.7. > I've contacted the package maintainers for Debian, Red Hat, openSUSE, SLES > and Ubuntu and they either don't have a problem with dropping 4.6 or, at > least, no more of a problem than the fact we've already dropped 4.4. Did any of them state a preference for not going to GCC 4.8? If so, what was the reasoning? Thanks, Brian _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
