Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> writes:
> Anthony Perard recently reported some problems with Clang v6.0 from > Ubuntu Bionic (with regards to the -Wmissing-braces configure test). > Since we're not officially supporting that version of Ubuntu anymore, > we should better bump our minimum version check in the configure script > instead of using our time to fix problems of unsupported compilers. > According to repology.org, our supported distros ship these versions > of Clang (looking at the highest version only): > > Fedora 36: 14.0.5 > CentOS 8 (RHEL-8): 12.0.1 > Debian 11: 13.0.1 > OpenSUSE Leap 15.4: 13.0.1 > Ubuntu LTS 20.04: 12.0.0 > FreeBSD Ports: 15.0.7 > NetBSD pkgsrc: 15.0.7 > Homebrew: 15.0.7 > MSYS2 mingw: 15.0.7 > Haiku ports: 12.0.1 > > While it seems like we could update to v12.0.0 from that point of view, > the default version on Ubuntu 20.04 is still v10.0, and we use that for > our CI tests based via the tests/docker/dockerfiles/ubuntu2004.docker > file. > > Thus let's make v10.0 our minimum version now (which corresponds to > Apple Clang version v12.0). The -Wmissing-braces check can then be > removed, too, since both our minimum GCC and our minimum Clang version > now handle this correctly. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> -- Alex Bennée Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro
