That's because code was (incorrectly) checked in that requires gcc 4.7 to
build.  Gecko is going to continue to only require 4.6 for the time being.

- Kyle

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 7:07 PM, Shian-Yow Wu <[email protected]> wrote:

> The MDN suggests setting gcc version to 4.6 to build Firefox OS.
>
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Firefox_OS_build_prerequisites
>
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Customization_with_the_.userconfig_file#Changing_the_default_host_compiler
>
> On latest mozilla central, however, when building gecko there could be
> error with this setting.
> Below is the error when building gecko on Ubuntu 14.04 using gcc 4.6.
>  0:09.19 ../../../../dist/include/GMPUtils.h:22:1: error: expected
> unqualified-id before ‘using’
>
> To solve this, either use gcc 4.6 with --std=c++11 option, or upgrade to
> gcc 4.7 or later(thanks to Tommy Kuo for this info).
>
> Do we still need gcc 4.6 as Firefox OS build prerequisite?  If not,
> probably we should remove this part from MDN.
>
> --
> Shian-Yow
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