grub2 on old Linux Distributions (at least CentOS 7)

[Joel Sherrill]

On Sat, Nov 20, 2021, 6:50 PM Karel Gardas <karel at functional.vision> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> indeed, centos 7 is bundled with gcc 4.8.5. Now, the question is, is
> centos 7 still supported by RTEMS? If so, then we will need to invent
> some machinery to check not only for commands but also for versions in
> cfg files? Also if we're doing this we need to check firmly we're really
> on old centos IMHO.
>

You can't build the documentation without using a Python 3 software
collection, Texlive, and some pip magic. For rtems6, I might be ok with
recommending a newer GCC.

>
> Thanks,
> Karel
>
> On 11/21/21 12:05 AM, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Looking over the build sweep failures, I spotted this one
> > (https://lists.rtems.org/pipermail/build/2021-November/030118.html)
> > which would lean to their being a floor on older distributions. There
> > is a software collection for a gcc8 for CentOS 7 but do we want to
> > require it? This is for x86_64 tools:
> >
> > In file included from grub-core/disk/lvm.c:28:0:
> > ./include/grub/safemath.h:34:2: error: #error gcc 5.1 or newer or
> > clang 3.8 or newer is required
> >
> > #error gcc 5.1 or newer or clang 3.8 or newer is required,
> >
> > Just looking for thought on what the best thing to do is.
> >
> > --joel
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