[llvm-dev] [RFC] Increase minimum supported GCC version for building LLVM to 4.8 (original) (raw)

Renato Golin via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Thu Oct 13 01:36:58 PDT 2016

They're all similar in features support.

The long range of dates is just because they're better at long term support than we are. :-)

Different distros will have different dot versions, but they are essentially the same for our purposes (c++ support).

Cheers, Renato

On 13 Oct 2016 12:59 a.m., "Pete Cooper via llvm-dev" < llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

+1 from me.

But which version of 4.8.x? 4.8.0 was released in March 2013 while 4.8.5 is June 2015 (see https://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html) Thats an awfully long time between those dates, so i can’t imagine everyone being on 4.8.5, but shouldn’t we aim for the highest possible one if we’re bumping versions anyway? Looking at Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (http://packages.ubuntu.com/ search?keywords=gcc-4.8), appears that 4.8.4 is available for many platforms, so if possible that might be a good version to do. Cheers, Pete On Oct 12, 2016, at 4:28 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger via llvm-dev <_ _llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote: On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 03:51:07PM -0700, Teresa Johnson via llvm-dev wrote: According to the documentation at http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html#software, compiling LLVM with GCC requires at least version 4.7.0. However, there are apparently several problems building current LLVM/Clang with gcc 4.7.X. This proposal is to increase the minimum required GCC to 4.8.

Fine with me. Joerg

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