On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 11:34:41AM +0400, Kostya Serebryany wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 10:34 PM, FX <fxcoud...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Unfortunately, we are not able to keep up with the old kernels.
> > > Two possible ways to go:
> > > - disable libsanitizer on older kernels
> > > - someone needs to work with us in upstream repository (llvm) to keep
> > the code old-kernel-compatible
> >
> > (It appears to be not only kernel, but binutils.)
> >
> > I think, at least the following should be done:
> >
> > - identify and document the minimal requirements
> >
>
> Agree. From our side we can only guarantee Ubuntu 12.04 and higher.
For making sure libsanitizer at least compiles, just installing
/usr/include/ trees from a couple of important still supported distributions
from various eras and just using -isystem /path/to/distro1/usr/include/ as
additional (very quick) test of building the libraries on your bots
wouldn't be IMHO that difficult.
Jakub
