Hi Ola, I don't think ODP necessarily needs to support
older versions of GCC, but if the GCC configure finds
is not compatible it would be nice to fail then as opposed
to cryptic build failures.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ola Liljedahl [mailto:ola.liljed...@linaro.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 4:32 AM
To: Robbie King (robking)
Cc: lng-odp-forward (lng-odp@lists.linaro.org)
Subject: Re: [lng-odp] Build failure with older GCC versions...

On 9 December 2014 at 17:48, Robbie King (robking) <robk...@cisco.com> wrote:
> After cloning tip just now, I found that I couldn’t build the fresh
>
> workspace due to having GCC 4.6.3 (the C11 changes to the atomics
>
> bumps minimum GCC up to 4.8 as best I can tell).  I’m not very familiar
GCC 4.7 according to https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.7/changes.html

Is support for older versions of GCC needed?

>
> with what “./configure” can and can’t do, but it seems we should verify
>
> the compiler supports these constructs and fail during the configure
>
> phase (as opposed to build time).
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robbie
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