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| author | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2017-11-23 08:29:48 +0100 |
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| committer | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2017-11-23 08:30:20 +0100 |
| commit | 84fa64598e8b7d6901c546e938fb0eeda625a8e8 (patch) | |
| tree | e587c2edd7433531fda943ad6f760fda9fc344b6 | |
| parent | 3d6ad407770e13958e157bf026cae0bfb9254899 (diff) | |
| parent | fae98f66fe5a7cee12f1b01cb9c1545ec479cf02 (diff) | |
| download | bitcoin-84fa64598e8b7d6901c546e938fb0eeda625a8e8.tar.xz | |
Merge #11755: [Docs] Bump minimum required version of GCC to 4.8
fae98f6 [Docs] Bump minimum required version of GCC to 4.8 (fanquake)
Pull request description:
Make it explicit that the minimum required version of GCC is 4.8. Discussion in #11732.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/dependencies.md | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/release-notes.md | 5 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/dependencies.md b/doc/dependencies.md index 964c03ba88..6e1d1ee992 100644 --- a/doc/dependencies.md +++ b/doc/dependencies.md @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ These are the dependencies currently used by Bitcoin Core. You can find instruct | Expat | [2.2.1](https://libexpat.github.io/) | | No | Yes | | | fontconfig | [2.12.1](https://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/release/) | | No | Yes | | | FreeType | [2.7.1](http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype) | | No | | | -| GCC | | [4.7+](https://gcc.gnu.org/) | | | | +| GCC | | [4.8+](https://gcc.gnu.org/) | | | | | HarfBuzz-NG | | | | | | | libevent | [2.1.8-stable](https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases) | 2.0.22 | No | | | | libjpeg | | | | | [Yes](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/depends/packages/qt.mk#L75) | diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md index 32f1bef62c..2c63b1f88e 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.md +++ b/doc/release-notes.md @@ -56,6 +56,11 @@ frequently tested on them. Notable changes =============== +GCC 4.8.x +-------------- +The minimum version of GCC required to compile Bitcoin Core is now 4.8. No effort will be +made to support older versions of GCC. See discussion in issue #11732 for more information. + HD-wallets by default --------------------- Due to a backward-incompatible change in the wallet database, wallets created |