Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:59:30 +0200 | Subject | Re: RFC: drop support for gcc < 4.0 | From | (Thomas Bogendoerfer) |
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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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