On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 8:12 PM Segher Boessenkool <seg...@kernel.crashing.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 01:22:24PM +0100, Martin Liška wrote: > > On 11/4/21 12:55, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > > >On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 09:32:21AM +0200, Richard Biener via Gcc-patches > > >wrote: > > >>On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 2:42 AM Bernhard Reutner-Fischer via > > >>Gcc-patches <gcc-patc...@gcc.gnu.org> wrote: > > >>> > > >>>From: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <al...@gcc.gnu.org> > > >>> > > >>>Bump required DejaGnu version to 1.5.3 (or later). > > >>>Ok for trunk? > > >> > > >>OK. > > > > > >If we really want to require such a new version of DejaGnu (most > > >machines I use have 1.5.1 or older), can we include it with GCC please? > > > > Do you mean in contrib/download_prerequisites? > > I was thinking as actual code, so we can make modifications where we > need to / want to as well. But your idea is much less contentious :-) > > > Note the version 1.5.1 is 8 years old, what legacy system do you use that > > has such > > an old version? > > CentOS 7. Some of those systems cannot run CentOS 8. And CentOS 8 will > reach EoL in less than two months, and CentOS Stream is not an option at > all (and even if it were, it cannot work on many of the machines). > > Everything else on CentOS 7 is supported by GCC (it is the oldest > supported for pretty much everything, but still). It would be bad for > DejaGnu to be the limiting factor :-/
So just contribute updated dejagnu packages to CentOS 7 "backports" or whatever means exists there? Btw, openSUSE Tumbleweed still has ppc64 (non-le) support and I bet Debian has that as well. Richard. > > Segher
