Thiago Macieira <[email protected]> writes: > On domingo, 19 de fevereiro de 2012 23.50.49, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote: >> AFAIU, Apple still ships gcc 4.2.1 (the last GPLv2 version of gcc) with >> its OS; does it mean another compiler is going to be required for OS X >> users too? > > Qt supports gcc 4.2.1 because that's what Apple supports. Unfortunately. > > But eventually we'll drop that once Apple moves on. And to be honest, I'd > rather not support it anywhere but on Mac OS X. The BSDs can upgrade to more > recent versions of GCC and I'd recommend something released in the past 2 or > at most 3 years.
Dropping support for ancient gcc's should hopefully happen by the time clang becomes the default compiler on FreeBSD :-) On the e-c-m/KF5 side, it'd be good to follow Qt and keep those gcc 4.2 checks as long as Qt itself also supports it. _______________________________________________ Kde-buildsystem mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-buildsystem
