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

[Thomas Huth]

On 2018-12-05 18:30, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> 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.

I don't think that it makes sense to put fixed version numbers into the
git or wiki - the information will expire soon, and it is additional
maintenance to keep them up to date. We already got the generic
description here:

https://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/qemu-doc.html#Supported-build-platforms

So you just have to follow these instructions to get to the supported
versions.

 Thomas