From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 21:58:28 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/spidermonkey: depends on host gcc >= 4.9 In-Reply-To: References: <20191204214913.718567-1-aduskett@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20191205215828.7258d035@windsurf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 13:54:41 -0800 Adam Duskett wrote: > Before this get's added I do want to make another suggestion: > > Open embedded also has a patch that reverts the reliance on C++14 > back to C++11, allowing the host GCC version to be >= 4.8. > > https://github.com/openembedded/meta-openembedded/blob/master/meta-oe/recipes-extended/mozjs/mozjs/fallback-to-2011-C%2B%2B-standard.patch So what this patch seems to imply is that in fact gcc 4.9 is not really required by the spidermonkey code. If that's the case, then yes I believe having the patch is probably nicer than having to propagate the dependency. Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com