Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 19:52:59 +0300 From: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Heads up: Bumping Minimum build version to 11. Message-ID: <20191024165259.GY73312@kib.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfo4AsT=i1RNRP%2BQJ3m0iOS0cm%2Bx4113XuYCMcXTx5fmYg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANCZdfo4AsT=i1RNRP%2BQJ3m0iOS0cm%2Bx4113XuYCMcXTx5fmYg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 10:47:01AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm in the process of bumping the minimum version of FreeBSD needed to > build from 10.3 to 11.x (still working on the x bit). There's other issues > with 11, but those are being addressed separately. > > 10.x can't built current because it's C++ compiler is too old. There's no > easy way to fix this because it can't build llvm w/o a lot of hacks, which > aren't productive. Upstream has moved away from using constructs that are > supported by clang 3.4.1 / g++ 2.4.1, and our policy is to not try when > that's happened as we will diverge from upstream for a feature that gives > very little benefit to our users. > > To that end, I plan on bumping the minimum version needed to build -current > to 11.0 (assuming that the tests are successful). I also plan on removing / > retiring all the workarounds for pre 11 build systems, as is our normal > custom. While technically the project minimum is only the tip of -stable, > we can relax this through the efforts of those wishing it to work. > Historically we've done several major revisions back due to various needs > of our users, though with clang that's becoming more difficult (hence the > need to bump the minimum up to 11). > > This is just a heads up that we're changing things to reflect the new > realities on the ground so others don't hit build errors later in the build > process. HEAD on stable/11 is not buildable anyway, due to the lack of the private lib infrastructure. I believe we only supported buiild of HEAD on latest stable branch, and there you needed a latest release or post-release stable.
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