From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756105AbcKBTzi (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Nov 2016 15:55:38 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:50398 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753174AbcKBTzg (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Nov 2016 15:55:36 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 20:55:32 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sven Joachim , Tomas Janousek , Joe Perches , Adam Borowski , Michal Marek , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, ben@decadent.org.uk, Jonathan Corbet , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Documentation/HOWTO: Use a more recent gcc + binutils Message-ID: <20161102195531.26534fn2at36hdy6@pd.tnic> References: <20161102172058.13641-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20161102172058.13641-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20161014 (1.7.1) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 06:20:57PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > Etch (with gcc v4.1.2) gets to compile the kernel without plenty of > warnings and it also chokes on Wno-override-init but that one could be > easily fixed if we want to keep v4.1 as the minimum. > So I think raising the bar to gcc v4.1 isn't that bad given that the > last release of gcc 4.1 was on February 13, 2007. You'd need to adjust #if GCC_VERSION < 30200 in include/linux/compiler-gcc.h. > > Cc: Jonathan Corbet > Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org > Cc: Andrew Morton > Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior > --- > Documentation/Changes | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes > index 22797a15dc24..14e65b445707 100644 > --- a/Documentation/Changes > +++ b/Documentation/Changes > @@ -29,9 +29,9 @@ you probably needn't concern yourself with isdn4k-utils. > ====================== =============== ======================================== > Program Minimal version Command to check the version > ====================== =============== ======================================== > -GNU C 3.2 gcc --version > +GNU C 4.1 gcc --version > GNU make 3.80 make --version > -binutils 2.12 ld -v > +binutils 2.17 ld -v That probably would be a good thing as 2.16 is the Binutils Version from Hell. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.