Re: RFC: drop support for gcc < 4.0

Thomas Bogendoerfer
2007-08-22T08:25:28Z

On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 05:41:04PM -0300, Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:
> On 8/21/07, Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 07:35:50PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >
> > > Are there any architectures still requiring a gcc < 4.0 ?
> >
> > Yes, sadly in some places (embedded) there are people with older
> > compiler who want newer kernels.
>
> Last time I tried a mips build, it would fail the compile unless I was
> using _exactly_ 3.4.4 (I didn't tried older versions, but did try
> 3.4.6, for ex.). So I also think the 3.4 series will still have to be
> around for a while.

that's fixed and I'm happiliy building the MIPS tree with gcc 3.3.3.
And I would be very unhappy to upgrade all my crosscompiler just because
someone thinks nobody build -rc kernel with older compilers. I do.

Thomas.

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