grub2 on old Linux Distributions (at least CentOS 7)

[Chris Johns]

On 21/11/21 12:21 pm, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 20, 2021, 6:50 PM Karel Gardas <karel at functional.vision> wrote:
>> 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.

Is this to be checked and enforced or does it just fail to build?

Chris