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| author | Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> | 2017-06-19 16:33:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> | 2017-06-19 16:34:05 +0000 |
| commit | 4add86749a31f302674599b69d2eea691d69341a (patch) | |
| tree | 68755949e4e394156f806e072463b3f3af64d278 /NEWS | |
| parent | f6110a8fee2ca36f8e2d2abecf3cba9fa7b8ea7d (diff) | |
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Require GCC 4.9 or later for building glibc.
This patch makes configure require GCC 4.9 or later for building glibc, and documents that requirement. Requiring GCC 4.9 or later allows use of _Generic (as in tzcode). It would allow <stdatomic.h> and _Atomic to be used as well if desired, although we need to avoid any libatomic dependencies on any platforms. This patch is explicitly the minimum to implement a new version requirement, with any consequent cleanups of conditional code (not in installed headers or files shared with gnulib etc.) to be done separately. Tested for x86_64. * configure.ac (libc_cv_compiler_ok): Require GCC 4.9 or later. * configure: Regenerated. * manual/install.texi (Tools for Compilation): Document requirement for GCC 4.9 or later. * INSTALL: Regenerated.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 9ee22185e8..f81d02f1cb 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -107,6 +107,10 @@ Version 2.26 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND were added as those are supported by the s390 kernel. +* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU + C Library is GCC 4.9. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can + still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library. + Security related changes: * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes, |