Re: [RFC PATCH] kbuild: add -fno-PIE

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 09:28:24 +0200 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Building with gcc 3.3 is apparently still possible, although it produces
> > tons of warnings and a modpost section mismatch.  Still, requiring gcc
> > 4.1 or newer would not be unreasonable, I think (still released a few
> > months earlier than binutils 2.17).
> 
> I remember you had once a server box running some enterprise distro
> which had an old gcc. Do you see any reason for not lifting the minimum
> gcc version to v4.1 ?

Seems OK to me.  I do have a gcc-3.4.5 for mips, sh and sparc64 sitting
around but I basically never use them and should update.