[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] mk: Rework gcc version detection to permit versions newer than 4.x

[David Marchand]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com>
wrote:

> On 02/24/2015 11:25 AM, David Marchand wrote:
>
>> Hello Panu,
>>
>> Looks like there is an issue with gcc 4.7 on my debian.
>>
>> $ make config T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc && make -j8
>> ../mk/toolchain/gcc/rte.toolchain-compat.mk:46
>> <http://rte.toolchain-compat.mk:46>: You are using GCC < 4.x. This is
>> neither supported, nor tested.
>> ../mk/toolchain/gcc/rte.toolchain-compat.mk:46
>> <http://rte.toolchain-compat.mk:46>: You are using GCC < 4.x. This is
>> neither supported, nor tested.
>>
>> $ gcc -dumpversion
>> 4.7
>>
>
> Meh. This seems to be a Debian specific modification to gcc, discussed
> here and there including but not limited to:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=759038
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-4.8/+bug/1360404
>
> Dunno about Ubuntu, but at least Ubuntu already changed it back. But I
> guess there's no choice but to work around it anyway... Easiest solution is
> probably just to drop the micro version out, back to the granularity where
> it used to be.


Yes, I suppose so, but then we are almost at square one :-)

-- 
David Marchand