[RFC] raise gcc/make versions for 20.x

[Hauke Mehrtens]

On 12/16/20 4:03 AM, Rosen Penev wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 6:31 PM Paul Spooren <mail at aparcar.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've seen two patches for version raises of build requirements and
>> would like to know if we should merge them before or after 20.x.
>>
>> make: 3.81.x -> 4.1.x
>> gcc: 4.8 -> 6.x
> The issue is with EL7. That would break the ability to compile.
> 
> No idea about the former in terms of bugs. In terms of the latter,
> there's a clang warning to fix the GCC 4.8 issue:
> -Werror=gnu-empty-initializer .

Does OpenWrt master build with GCC 4.8 from RHEL 7 and we just see some 
additional warnings?

If we see an error message could you please post it.

Hauke

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