Re: [TCLCORE] Tcl 9.1a0 Release Candidate

[Donald A. <as...@tr...>]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2025, Jan Nijtmans <jan...@gm...> wrote

>Op do 17 jul 2025 om 21:33 schreef Paul Obermeier <pa...@po...>:
>>
>> Please note, that rc0 does not compile using gcc 4.9.2 (SUSE 42.3). It does work with gcc 7 and newer.
>...
>> Also note, that rc1 does not compile using gcc <= 8, because of the introduction of option --disable-high-entropy-va,
>> which is not available in these gcc versions.

> You are talking about Windows only, are you? For 9.1, I would say that's OK
> to support  gcc versions >= 9.1 (May 2019) only. But for 8.6 and 9.0, we still should still
> support older compilers on Windows.
>
> Note that gcc versions < 11 are no longer supported by the gcc maintainers.

Opensuse Leap 15.6  has gcc  version 7.5.0.
Leap 15.6 is the most recent version, release a year ago and supported until December 2025.

There must be LTS releases of Linux systems that have older gcc still.



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