Re: RFC: drop support for gcc < 4.0
From: Glauber de Oliveira Costa
Date: Tue Aug 21 2007 - 16:41:45 EST
On 8/21/07, Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 07:35:50PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> > Are there any architectures still requiring a gcc < 4.0 ?
>
> Yes, sadly in some places (embedded) there are people with older
> compiler who want newer kernels.
Last time I tried a mips build, it would fail the compile unless I was
using _exactly_ 3.4.4 (I didn't tried older versions, but did try
3.4.6, for ex.). So I also think the 3.4 series will still have to be
around for a while.
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