Since the proposed change is user-visible (i.e., not just for building the JDK, but also for building pretty much every JNI blob in existence), wouldn't you want the correct check anyway? Does the JDK have rules about which version of gcc you are allowed to use to build JNI?
Jeremy On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 1:36 AM, Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 02/17/2013 11:55 PM, David Holmes wrote: > >> On 16/02/2013 2:46 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: >> >>> On 02/15/2013 05:41 PM, Jeremy Manson wrote: >>> >>>> Can we just blacklist 4.1.2 explicitly? >>>> >>> >>> Folks, per README-build.html, the minimum GCC version is 4.2 on MacOS X >>> and 4.3 everywhere else. Do we really have to bother with 4.1.2 at this >>> point? >>> >> >> There are ports that still use these older gcc versions. >> > > Oh. Perhaps this information can be added to README-builds.html? > > > -- > Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team >
