> I think that is too new. > We still allow building gcc e.g. with GCC 4.8 from ~ 10 years ago and > I think various boxes where people regularly build gcc will have similarly > old other tools. > So, bumping requirement from ~ 20 years old tools to ~ 10 years old tools > might be ok, but requiring ones at most 2 years old will be a nightmare,
I agree. Lots of toolchains distributed by CPU vendors are supposed to support CentOS 6, or at least 7.
