Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.0 1/7] configure: Add a test for the minimum compiler version

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 12/3/18 3:05 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> So far we only had implicit requirements for the minimum compiler version,
> e.g. we require at least GCC 4.1 for the support of atomics. However,
> such old compiler versions are not tested anymore by the developers, so
> they are not really supported anymore. Since we recently declared explicitly
> what platforms we intend to support, we can also get more explicit on the
> compiler version now. The supported distributions use the following version
> of GCC:
> 
>       RHEL-7: 4.8.5
>       Debian (Stretch): 6.3.0
>       Debian (Jessie): 4.8.4
>       OpenBSD (ports): 4.9.4
>       FreeBSD (ports): 8.2.0
>       OpenSUSE Leap 15: 7.3.1
>       Ubuntu (Xenial): 5.3.1
>       macOS (Homebrew): 8.2.0

I'd like to track this in a machine parsable format, but sure where it
better fits however, I'd prefer the git repo, and having the wiki
pointing to the git repo.

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