From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.90_1) id 1nOjlr-0001s7-M4 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2022 12:25:15 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:36664) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nOjln-0001rH-E5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2022 12:25:11 -0500 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com ([170.10.129.124]:34225) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nOjlk-0002Q5-4X for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2022 12:25:09 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1646069098; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=HYOc20U4gMCqlu7xY/nTIb2DRV0XrRRd2YMdcsUL61Y=; b=ZdNIirmf4jt4hfg60XzNCO5tChvsdKbJMMKk65oITSFfhhxQiw9Cw9LXwrfpEKZLlE9OyG +fFfdfz2c8tQCAQqil3srF5Z/KyfWuMCuOnK0CSETghadUO4yUBjE1phFnrmt496q/4+dr e5ZYjUzJJsZ7yOSglAivtigRyc5m9zo= Received: from mail-qk1-f199.google.com (mail-qk1-f199.google.com [209.85.222.199]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-39-jp__YBnNO1iLVJvLE5-Vyg-1; Mon, 28 Feb 2022 12:24:57 -0500 X-MC-Unique: jp__YBnNO1iLVJvLE5-Vyg-1 Received: by mail-qk1-f199.google.com with SMTP id k23-20020a05620a139700b0062cda5c6cecso11794269qki.6 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2022 09:24:57 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:mime-version; bh=HYOc20U4gMCqlu7xY/nTIb2DRV0XrRRd2YMdcsUL61Y=; b=L+ahAF6LcMs1oOFvPqM+i2QFJo2C2EZ8nFq85Dk3SbYYF9HNJrQ8sVx6z19gmyWgv5 bBg95hlj9MsRnT62+dGjZ+CLuivl8UN2uVmD6uX+5lJdSZ79G0ZHO6JVMlflbvBGMdPf le1xih3OUUop3OW34yOtBuRSfJDsSw9ZT006hSar/fJsKn4X8pGsdXNS0/QS8x9OM8gM 5m7wZmyzhrxHPme0xmqfAeL6zpWXGXsR/b06lOhbxz5Ltgu8BY2ipzSQfVFjV8otP3Pn 2DhLR960fPs+2syBMIgTkfijdgyzbAZPBr7r4I0dkkN120urYx5FMImapITDNO+Vhs0m elrQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532WEGzlx5b8KEjfeTCzmsyYjh7uMhksgONhDg9AQgeXyBPKjh9t vLlRnFVqT7OwqYhdzmFQ4Z04lez8+qcMRS0DplUDX7BH6sujVE5LyuR4yXSJqhnEg+H/I1HcAiQ 79cv57BJ2EEg= X-Received: by 2002:a05:622a:1985:b0:2de:b88:4673 with SMTP id u5-20020a05622a198500b002de0b884673mr17311695qtc.230.1646069095077; Mon, 28 Feb 2022 09:24:55 -0800 (PST) X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJyaaHzgsUGbShotPrhSfAE0a/beEzlY7fkRjfV+Z7hpeLtXkstH5ViP8hGxAVzIZlhNcivooQ== X-Received: by 2002:a05:622a:1985:b0:2de:b88:4673 with SMTP id u5-20020a05622a198500b002de0b884673mr17311651qtc.230.1646069094371; Mon, 28 Feb 2022 09:24:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost ([2601:184:4181:74c0:862e:5809:ed9e:e10e]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id n8-20020ac85a08000000b002de658d6748sm7468179qta.55.2022.02.28.09.24.53 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 28 Feb 2022 09:24:53 -0800 (PST) From: Robbie Harwood To: development@efficientek.com, Daniel Kiper Cc: grub-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: Minimum compiler version (was: Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] Update gnulib and drop some patches) In-Reply-To: <20220225195046.62895cec@crass-HP-ZBook-15-G2> References: <20220225195046.62895cec@crass-HP-ZBook-15-G2> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 12:24:50 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Received-SPF: pass client-ip=170.10.129.124; envelope-from=rharwood@redhat.com; helo=us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com X-Spam_score_int: -28 X-Spam_score: -2.9 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIMWL_WL_HIGH=-0.082, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H5=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 17:25:13 -0000 --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Glenn Washburn writes: > GCC 5.1.0 looks like it came out on April 22, 2015[1] and 5.2 was used > in Ubuntu Xenial from 2016 (which is no longer supported). At what > point do we bump up the minimum supported version? And doing so > wouldn't mean that GRUB can't be compiled with eariler versions of > GCC, it just means we don't test that. I also think it would be > acceptable to accept patches that fix issues with compiling on GCC > versions less than the stated minimum supported version (with in > reason and subject to discretion). > > One idea is to update the minimum supported version every release cycle > to the lowest GCC version that is about 5 years old (that's artitrary > but seems reasonable). > > I'm interested in this because it seems to imply that for the testing > system it should do two compilations for every target, one for the > munimum supported GCC and one for a somewhat recent version. I support raising the minimum compiler version. Looking at https://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/releases.html , a five-year proposal would raise to gcc-7. 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