commit:     626f41a9781c566d38796a9dabb7971a016b0e64
Author:     Fabian Groffen <grobian <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
AuthorDate: Mon Jan 15 19:20:14 2018 +0000
Commit:     Fabian Groffen <grobian <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Mon Jan 15 19:20:14 2018 +0000
URL:        https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/proj/prefix.git/commit/?id=626f41a9

scripts/bootstrap-prefix: add small note about gcc-4.7 wrt c++

 scripts/bootstrap-prefix.sh | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/bootstrap-prefix.sh b/scripts/bootstrap-prefix.sh
index 7afede079e..56a99fa65b 100755
--- a/scripts/bootstrap-prefix.sh
+++ b/scripts/bootstrap-prefix.sh
@@ -179,6 +179,8 @@ configure_toolchain() {
          # stage1 compiler that can build with C only.
          # But gcc-4.7 fails to build with gcc-5.4, so we check for
          # >gcc-4.7, as anything newer provides c++ anyway (#619542).
+         # gcc-4.7 is the last version not to require a c++ compiler to
+         # build
          eval $( (gcc -E - | grep compiler_stage1) <<-EOP
                #if defined(__GNUC__) && (__GNUC__ > 4 || (__GNUC__ == 4 && 
__GNUC_MINOR__ > 7))
                  compiler_stage1+=" sys-devel/gcc"

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