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Re: Changing base compiler requirement for bootstrapping GNAT
- From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>
- Cc: Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Arnaud Charlet <charlet at adacore dot com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 13:33:15 +0100
- Subject: Re: Changing base compiler requirement for bootstrapping GNAT
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- Reply-to: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 01:26:32PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Jan 19 2017, Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com> wrote:
>
> > Is it ok to require gcc 4.9 (3 years old) or later to build GNAT ?
>
> The newest Ada compiler available for SLE11 is 4.8.
Various people still use 4.4 or even 4.1 as bootstrap compilers.
While 3 years old requirement is way better than the Rust nonsense (only
support bootstrap with 6 weeks older Rust and not older), it is still not
good enough for GCC IMHO.
Jakub