Re: [RFC] Deprecate GCC2?

From: Alex Rousskov <rousskov_at_measurement-factory.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:19:19 -0600

On 04/04/2013 03:15 AM, Kinkie wrote:

>> PS. The "official" line from me is that we require 4.x to build Squid-3.1
>> and later. Squid-3.2 requires a recent 4.6+ version to build reliably due to
>> the increasing amount of C++11 support in use.
>
> Given your statement, what I would like to do have the build stop at
> configure time for trunk on gcc < v4 (with the necessary headroom to
> support the same thing for other compilers as well), and add a
> configure option --disable-compiler-version-checks which allows the
> build to go through for admins who Know What They're Doing(tm).
> Comments?

Perhaps just add a warning? No big difference to me either way -- just
thinking about minimizing the number of artificial restrictions and code
to disable those artificial restrictions...

Alex.
Received on Thu Apr 04 2013 - 16:19:34 MDT

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