On Sunday, January 8, 2017 at 8:38:15 AM UTC-6, Brenton Horne wrote: > Hi, > I maintain Vim packages in my Open Build Service home project, for example > here are the packaging files I use to build it for CentOS/Fedora/Scientific > Linux https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:fusion809/vim-redhat. I > would like to build Vim for CentOS 5 and 6, but I cannot presently do this, > because the build fails and I think the reason why is that GCC is too old. So > I am here to ask what's the minimum version of GCC required to build the > latest Vim (so 8.0) and are there any ways to build Vim with an older GCC? > The build log (showing the error from building Vim on 64-bit CentOS 6) can be > found here, if you're wondering whether it's a bug. > Thanks for your time, > Brenton
I don't know what the oldest is, but I currently build Vim successfully on an old Solaris server using gcc 2.95.2, which according to https://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html is from 1999 (almost 20 years old)! I'm not sure whether you're trying to go older than that, but I'd expect old compilers to work fine in general terms. :-) -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
