Re: [PATCH] Raise the minimum required gcc version to 4.6
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: 2018-08-20 20:48:24
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On Mon, 2018-08-20 at 14:42 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 13:15:26 -0700 Joe Perches [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
+#if GCC_VERSION < 40600 +# error Sorry, your compiler is too old - please upgrade it. +#endifIt seems we could be a little friendlier here? "Kernel compilation requires GCC >= v4.6, please upgrade" ?
This is unchanged text, it's just moved around, but sure, trivial... Wordsmithing should likely be a separate patch though. --- include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
index 250b9b7cfd60..5d95cabd13b3 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ + __GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__) #if GCC_VERSION < 40600 -# error Sorry, your compiler is too old - please upgrade it. +# error Kernel compilation requires GCC >= v4.6, please upgrade your compiler #endif /* Optimization barrier */