sanity: Require gcc 5.0 minimum version

After polling various develoeprs, its clear that many layers are struggling
with gcc 4.8 and its better for the project to adopt 5.0 as a minimum
version at this point in time. We should have technology like
buildtools-extended-tarball available to ensure things still work on Centos 7
and Debian 8.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass b/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass
index 88888e814a489baf17734988facefb4d990c7f30..edd2df26263b8a31dbf145a92cb38d0a4fac9829 100644 (file)
--- a/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ def check_wsl(d):
             return "OpenEmbedded doesn't work under WSL at this time, sorry"
     return None
 
-# Require at least gcc version 4.8.
+# Require at least gcc version 5.0.
 #
 # This can be fixed on CentOS-7 with devtoolset-6+
 # https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/devtoolset-6/
@@ -535,8 +535,8 @@ def check_gcc_version(sanity_data):
     
     build_cc, version = oe.utils.get_host_compiler_version(sanity_data)
     if build_cc.strip() == "gcc":
-        if LooseVersion(version) < LooseVersion("4.8"):
-            return "Your version of gcc is older than 4.8 and will break builds. Please install a newer version of gcc (you could use the project's buildtools-extended-tarball or use scripts/install-buildtools).\n"
+        if LooseVersion(version) < LooseVersion("5.0"):
+            return "Your version of gcc is older than 5.0 and will break builds. Please install a newer version of gcc (you could use the project's buildtools-extended-tarball or use scripts/install-buildtools).\n"
     return None
 
 # Tar version 1.24 and onwards handle overwriting symlinks correctly