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

[Teresa Johnson via llvm-commits]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Aaron Ballman <aaron at aaronballman.com>
wrote:

> It turns out that there *may* be a problem with dropping GCC 4.7 right
> now. It seems that our documentation builder (which is not a public
> bot, unfortunately) that is used for building the public-facing
> attribute and compiler option documents is on a machine running GCC
> 4.7. I've alerted the person maintaining the bot about it, but I'm not
> certain how soon that builder will be switched over (it may already be
> in the process of switching, for all I know).
>
> I apologize for not recognizing this earlier, but it turns out that a
> recent commit broke that bot this morning, which is how I realized
> that the bot is still on GCC 4.7.
>

Ok do we need to revert this change? If so, how long would it take to get
the bot upgraded to gcc 4.8? I am surprised the bot has been working though
- this change was motivated by multiple reports of clang and LLVM not
building with gcc 4.7. Or is it just building documentation?

Thanks,
Teresa



>
> ~Aaron
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Renato Golin via llvm-commits
> <llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> > rengolin accepted this revision.
> > rengolin added a comment.
> > This revision is now accepted and ready to land.
> >
> > In https://reviews.llvm.org/D25683#573000, @jlebar wrote:
> >
> >> If someone really wants to use gcc 4.7, nothing is stopping them from
> going into cmake and commenting out this line.  :)
> >
> >
> > Good point. :)
> >
> > LGTM. Thanks!
> >
> >
> > https://reviews.llvm.org/D25683
> >
> >
> >
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