[PATCH] D25683: [docs] Increase minimum supported GCC version for building LLVM to 4.8

Justin Lebar via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Tue Oct 18 08:47:28 PDT 2016


jlebar added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D25683#572923, @rengolin wrote:

> >   status(FATAL_ERROR "This version of LLVM is known to not compile with GCC before version 4.8")
>
> We could add a warning, though.


I am pretty sure you want a fatal error, otherwise people are going to try it, discover that it doesn't work, and complain on our list.

If someone really wants to use gcc 4.7, nothing is stopping them from going into cmake and commenting out this line.  :)


https://reviews.llvm.org/D25683





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