[Slackbuilds-users] configure: error: GCC 5.5.0 is too old

[Christoph Willing]

On 10/8/19 8:51 am, Christoph Willing wrote:
> On 10/8/19 3:28 am, Willy Sudiarto Raharjo wrote:
>>> I'm working on an update of the SlackBuild for LibreOffice (build from
>>> source) to version 6.3.0.4 but it very soon leads to:
>>>
>>> checking the GCC version... gcc 5.5.0 (50500)
>>> configure: error: GCC 5.5.0 is too old, must be at least GCC 7.0.0
>>> Error running configure at ./autogen.sh line 302.
>>>
>>>
>>> Is anyone interested in submitting a SlackBuild for gcc7 along the lines
>>> of gcclegacy494  i.e. an updated gcc >= 7.0.0 that can coexist with
>>> 14.2's gcc-5.5.0? I'm not sure whether this is the first SlackBuild that
>>> finds the standard gcc too old but it will probably not be the last, so
>>> an updated gcc would be good contribution.
>>
>> I think it's good to keep LO at 6.2.x since they drop support for x86 as
>> well in 6.3.x.
>>
> 
> I'd forgotten that they're dropping x86 support in 6.3.x. However I
> noticed that on the LO development list, they're helping people from a
> specialist x86 distro to make their own packages. No success with that
> yet but the fact that they're being assisted by the developers gives
> some hope that it's possible.
> 
> As for the compiler verion problem, I'm going to try Eugen's suggestion
> to use ggc-d and if it works for x86_64 then I'll try it with x86. If
> both work then I'll update but otherwise leave it where it is.
> 

Well using gcc-d works (at least autogen.sh finds & accepts it), however
another problem then arises - that 14.2's gperf-3.0.4 as also too old. I
can imagine arranging a special version of gperf just to compile
LO-6.3.x and then finding that some other tool is also too old etc.,
etc., so I'll just leave LibreOffice at 6.2.x.

chris

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