Re: Require at least gcc 4.2

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 03:23:01PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: "Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko" <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 16:12:20 +0200
> 
> > Even if gcc<4.2 seem to work ok I think we shouldn't waste resources
> > on it and officially declare a minimal requirement ("you're free to go
> > under requirement but don't post bugreports if you do")
> 
> You're making it such that I won't be able to do development on my
> main sparc development machine, which is using gcc-4.1.3
> 
> In my view, this is going a bit overboard as a method to address this
> problem.

Why not just skip the check?  (e.g. --disable-gcc-check)

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