On 08/10/2012 03:40 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > Chad Versace schrieb: > >> This opens a larger question. gcc 4.2 was released in May 2007, over 5 years >> ago, and received its last update in May 2008. How old of a gcc should new >> Mesa >> releases support? >> >> Before 2007 I had not even been introduced to Linux, so I'm not in a >> position to >> answer that question. > > If you care about a bit more than Linux: gcc-4.2 is the last version > that was released under GPL 2. For that reason, in some places gcc-4.2 > is the latest release available. One example is Apple, who provide their > specially patched gcc only up to version 4.2.1. > > > Best regards, > Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn > > _______________________________________________ > mesa-dev mailing list > mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev >
Thanks for the infom, Chí-Thanh. Based on this, I will let configure.ac add the flag conditionally based on gcc feature detection. -Chad _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
