Open Bug 1678158 Opened 5 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Update minimum GCC version to 4.8.3 or more

Categories

(NSS :: Build, defect, P2)

Product:
NSS
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: kjacobs, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 2 open bugs)

Details

(Whiteboard: [nss-fx][nss-ci])

As announced in [0], we plan to increase the minimum GCC version (for Gyp builds initially) from 4.4 to 4.8 starting with NSS 3.60.

This bug tracks this work, as well as removal of the Gyp GCC 4.4 CI targets.

[0] https://wiki.developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.59_release_notes

Assignee: nobody → bbeurdouche
Severity: -- → S3
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Priority: -- → P1
Whiteboard: [nss-fx]

It seems we have hit a GCC 4.8 bug in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1683520 where -Wmissing-braces misbehaves:
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53119
According to the GCC bugtracker 4.8.3 and above have the fix.

Type: enhancement → defect
Summary: Update minimum GCC version to 4.8 → Update minimum GCC version to 4.8.3 or more
Target Milestone: 3.60 → 3.64
Assignee: bbeurdouche → nobody
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Whiteboard: [nss-fx] → [nss-fx][nss-ci]
Target Milestone: 3.64 → 3.67
Priority: P1 → P2
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