Re: [PATCH] configure: Bump minimum Clang version to 10.0

[Alex Bennée]

Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:

> Anthony Perard recently reported some problems with Clang v6.0 from
> Ubuntu Bionic (with regards to the -Wmissing-braces configure test).
> Since we're not officially supporting that version of Ubuntu anymore,
> we should better bump our minimum version check in the configure script
> instead of using our time to fix problems of unsupported compilers.
> According to repology.org, our supported distros ship these versions
> of Clang (looking at the highest version only):
>
>               Fedora 36: 14.0.5
>       CentOS 8 (RHEL-8): 12.0.1
>               Debian 11: 13.0.1
>      OpenSUSE Leap 15.4: 13.0.1
>        Ubuntu LTS 20.04: 12.0.0
>           FreeBSD Ports: 15.0.7
>           NetBSD pkgsrc: 15.0.7
>                Homebrew: 15.0.7
>             MSYS2 mingw: 15.0.7
>             Haiku ports: 12.0.1
>
> While it seems like we could update to v12.0.0 from that point of view,
> the default version on Ubuntu 20.04 is still v10.0, and we use that for
> our CI tests based via the tests/docker/dockerfiles/ubuntu2004.docker
> file.
>
> Thus let's make v10.0 our minimum version now (which corresponds to
> Apple Clang version v12.0). The -Wmissing-braces check can then be
> removed, too, since both our minimum GCC and our minimum Clang version
> now handle this correctly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>

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Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro