grub2 on old Linux Distributions (at least CentOS 7)

[Karel Gardas]

On 11/21/21 2:21 AM, Joel Sherrill wrote:
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> On Sat, Nov 20, 2021, 6:50 PM Karel Gardas <karel at functional.vision> wrote:
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>     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.
> 
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> 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.

Well, that would be also a way out of the issue here. Honestly having
gcc >= 5.x is really a modest requirement and if centos7 provides gcc8
packages, it would be silly not to use those...

Thanks,
Karel