> On 19 Jan 2017, at 13:33, Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 01:26:32PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> On Jan 19 2017, Tristan Gingold <ging...@adacore.com> wrote: >> >>> Is it ok to require gcc 4.9 (3 years old) or later to build GNAT ? >> >> The newest Ada compiler available for SLE11 is 4.8. > > Various people still use 4.4 or even 4.1 as bootstrap compilers. > While 3 years old requirement is way better than the Rust nonsense (only > support bootstrap with 6 weeks older Rust and not older), it is still not > good enough for GCC IMHO.
I was not able to build gnat with a gcc 4.1 compiler (looks to be too old), but I think I can add compatibility stuff to be able to bootstrap with gcc-4.3 (which is 8 years old). Tristan.
