Several distros have been dropped since the last time we bumped the minimum required GCC version.
Per repology, currently shipping versions are: RHEL-8: 8.3.1 Debian Stretch: 6.3.0 Debian Buster: 8.3.0 openSUSE Leap 15.2: 7.5.0 Ubuntu LTS 18.04: 7.5.0 Ubuntu LTS 20.04: 9.3.0 FreeBSD: 10.3.0 Fedora 33: 9.2.0 Fedora 34: 11.0.1 OpenBSD: 8.4.0 macOS HomeBrew: 11.1.0 With this list Debian Stretch is the constraint at 6.3.0 Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> --- configure | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/configure b/configure index a1a40577c9..43d2470bb6 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -2059,8 +2059,8 @@ cat > $TMPC << EOF # endif # endif #elif defined(__GNUC__) && defined(__GNUC_MINOR__) -# if __GNUC__ < 4 || (__GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 8) -# error You need at least GCC v4.8 to compile QEMU +# if __GNUC__ < 6 || (__GNUC__ == 6 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 3) +# error You need at least GCC v6.3.0 to compile QEMU # endif #else # error You either need GCC or Clang to compiler QEMU @@ -2068,7 +2068,7 @@ cat > $TMPC << EOF int main (void) { return 0; } EOF if ! compile_prog "" "" ; then - error_exit "You need at least GCC v4.8 or Clang v3.4 (or XCode Clang v5.1)" + error_exit "You need at least GCC v6.3 or Clang v3.4 (or XCode Clang v5.1)" fi # Accumulate -Wfoo and -Wno-bar separately. -- 2.31.1