1834436 - Upgrade minimum supported GCC version to 8

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox Build System :: Toolchains, task)

Description

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

Per https://glandium.github.io/firefox-linux-compat-matrix/#scope=build&version=115&show_eol=false, Ubuntu 18.04 is the last non-EOLed distro to not have GCC >= 8. Olivier, would it cause problems for Ubuntu if we went ahead with this?

Comment 1

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

Attachment: Bug 1834436 - Upgrade minimum supported GCC version to 8.

Comment 2

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

Redirecting to Ken.

Comment 3

[:gerard-majax]

amin, can you take care of this ?

Comment 4

[:gerard-majax]

I can likely test it myself.

Comment 5

[:gerard-majax]

I got confirmation over IRC that this is fine: 18.04 is EOL and there is no new releases of Firefox planned there. Plus GCC-8 is in this release.

Comment 6

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

(In reply to Alexandre LISSY :gerard-majax from comment #5)

I got confirmation over IRC that this is fine: 18.04 is EOL

it's LTS until 2028

and there is no new releases of Firefox planned there.

I guess that's what matters most.

Plus GCC-8 is in this release.

There actually isn't. There's gcc-8-base, all the libs, but no gcc itself. See http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gcc-8/

Comment 7

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/82e198deee76
Upgrade minimum supported GCC version to 8. r=firefox-build-system-reviewers,sergesanspaille

Comment 8

[Cristina Horotan [:chorotan]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/82e198deee76