From: Carlo Arenas <carenas@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 16:58:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ci: add job for gcc-4.8 to GitHub Actions
Message-ID: <CAPUEsphsyxdjf7WfqQQhBbVYt_URAdj4Cg-OT+dJenO7vpfOJQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 9:06 AM Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/16/2021 12:57 AM, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón wrote:
> > 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