On Monday 20 February 2012, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote: > 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.
So we could limit it to >= 4.2 at least. Alex _______________________________________________ Kde-buildsystem mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-buildsystem
