[RFC] raise gcc/make versions for 20.x

[Etienne Champetier]

Le mer. 16 déc. 2020 à 07:33, Yousong Zhou <yszhou4tech at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 13:11, Petr Štetiar <ynezz at true.cz> wrote:
> >
> > Paul Spooren <mail at aparcar.org> [2020-12-15 16:26:14]:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > > I've seen two patches for version raises of build requirements and would
> > > like to know if we should merge them before or after 20.x.
> > >
> > > make: 3.81.x -> 4.1.x
> > > gcc: 4.8 -> 6.x
> > >
> > > I'm in favor to merge both *before* the branch.
> >
> > it would probably help to know the reason as well. "I'm in favor" might not be
> > enough in this almost pre-release stage.
> >
> > AFAIK that Make version bump fixes an issue with possibly few stray ANSI color
> > escapes (workaround is to use NO_COLOR=1 in this case) and \r characters in the
> > log file. Is it really that big issue to do this last minute version bump?
> >
> > FYI that gcc6+ one was NACKed[1] by Yousong and I'm fine with that for 20.12
> > release. I plan to rebase/resend that patch once 20.12 is branched.
> >
> > 1. https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openwrt/patch/20191112081625.27695-1-ynezz@true.cz/#2301662
> >
>
> I still hold the belief that a system such as CentOS could deserve a
> work-out-of-the-box experience ;)  But now that CentOS like the old
> day is not an option anymore in the future, I say we move on in the
> next release.

Why not just install devtoolset, up to date gcc supported by RedHat people ?
Or use a build container ?
There are a lot of options to not be stuck with a 7 years old version of GCC ;)

Etienne

>
> Regards,
>                 yousong