On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 12:24:50PM -0500, Robbie Harwood wrote: > Glenn Washburn <developm...@efficientek.com> writes: > > > GCC 5.1.0 looks like it came out on April 22, 2015[1] and 5.2 was used > > in Ubuntu Xenial from 2016 (which is no longer supported). At what > > point do we bump up the minimum supported version? And doing so > > wouldn't mean that GRUB can't be compiled with eariler versions of > > GCC, it just means we don't test that. I also think it would be > > acceptable to accept patches that fix issues with compiling on GCC > > versions less than the stated minimum supported version (with in > > reason and subject to discretion). > > > > One idea is to update the minimum supported version every release cycle > > to the lowest GCC version that is about 5 years old (that's artitrary > > but seems reasonable).
I think we should support a given minimum compiler version until it does not require a lot of effort from our side. So, as long as possible... > > I'm interested in this because it seems to imply that for the testing > > system it should do two compilations for every target, one for the > > munimum supported GCC and one for a somewhat recent version. I fully agree with this. > I support raising the minimum compiler version. > > Looking at https://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/releases.html , a five-year > proposal would raise to gcc-7. I am OK with this because as it was pointed out in other places older compilers do not support RISC-V builds. Of course if I do not hear a lot of complaints... :-) So, I am looking forward for an INSTALL file patch... Daniel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
