When we moved to 4.8 there was a spreadsheet that showed how folks can get 4.8 on various distributions, have you checked that 4.8.1 is available across distributions?
On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Adam Bordelon <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 > > On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Joris Van Remoortere < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > +1 (binding) > > > > I would like to propose that we bump our minimum supported version for > gcc > > > from 4.8.0 to 4.8.1. The main motivation behind this is that there are > at > > > least 2 outstanding reviews on RB that want to use ref-qualifiers < > > > http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2439.htm> > > > introduced in GCC 4.8.1. The reviews in question are r41870 < > > > https://reviews.apache.org/r/41870> and r41593 < > > > > https://reviews.apache.org/r/41593/diff/2?file=1173648#file1173648line58 > > >. > > > > > > Also, our Getting Started document < > > > http://mesos.apache.org/gettingstarted/> for Mesos already lists the > > > minimum gcc version as > 4.8. Looking at the release timeline < > > > https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/> for GCC, it seems that 4.8.0/4.8.1 were > > > released within a week of each other. > > > > > > Does anyone have a strong opinion against this change ? > > > > > > -anand > > > > > >
