Re: [PATCH] ci: add job for gcc-4.8 to GitHub Actions

On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 9:06 AM Derrick Stolee [off-list ref] wrote:

On 8/16/2021 12:57 AM, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón wrote:

quoted

it adds 2m to the current setup, but gcc 4.8 is hard to find in modern
developer workstations (or even non EOL enterprise systems)

Forgive me, I probably missed a discussion about this
somewhere else on the list, but...

Could you describe why we want GCC 4.8 in our CI? Is that a
compiler version that we officially support?

couldn't find the specific thread I seem to remember, but AFAIK it was
because it is the compiler from RHEL7

Carlo