Re: Earliest version of gcc the project should support as stage1 for gcc 17?

[Paul Koning via Gcc]

> On Mar 20, 2026, at 2:32 PM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> ...
>>> That's an excellent principle.  Do we apply this to other dependencies?  
>>> I've noticed the prerequisite version of things like gmp creeping up.  Is 
>>> that necessary?
> ...
> But that's just the versions that we download with that script, the
> minimum supported versions are much older, and haven't changed in
> ages.
> 
> The minimum MPC version was increased in 2020, the minimum MPFR was
> increased in 2019, and GMP 4.3.2 has been the minimum since 2010!
> 
> So I don't think you have noticed them creeping up :-)

I was probably thinking of MPC; I can't keep those apart.

        paul