[Buildroot] Bug during Kodi compile with host gcc <4.7, question regarding autobuilders

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Bernd, Thomas, All,

On 2016-03-14 23:05 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2016 20:23:16 +0100, Bernd Kuhls wrote:
> > with my proposed patch we can lower it to BR2_HOST_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_6 ;)
> > 
> > With gcc 4.4 (testing with Ubuntu 10.04.4) adding -std=c++0xwill not be 
> > enough:
> > 
> > XBTFWriter.cpp: In constructor ?CXBTFWriter::CXBTFWriter(const 
> > std::string&)?:
> > XBTFWriter.cpp:42: error: ?nullptr? was not declared in this scope
> > 
> > Looking around for approaches to solve the problem I found these two 
> > commits:
> > 
> > https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/ae45a2c9d678
> > https://github.com/grpc/grpc/
> > commit/3ff350cf96676f2c32c6913aceeabf84a15f3715
> 
> Why do you want to solve the problem? Adding a dependency on
> BR2_HOST_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_6 is perfectly fine, especially for such
> a modern, complex C++ software like Kodi.

Totally agreed.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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