Re: [PATCH 17/41] doc/build-platforms: document supported compilers

[Thomas Huth]

On 20/04/2022 16.10, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 05:26:00PM +0400, marcandre.lureau@redhat.com wrote:
> > From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
> >
> > According to our configure checks, this is the list of supported
> > compilers.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Damien Hedde <damien.hedde@greensocs.com>
> > ---
> >   docs/about/build-platforms.rst | 10 ++++++++++
> >   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
> > index c29a4b8fe649..1980c5d2476f 100644
> > --- a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
> > +++ b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
> > @@ -92,6 +92,16 @@ hosted on Linux (Debian/Fedora).
> >   The version of the Windows API that's currently targeted is Vista / Server
> >   2008.
> >   
> > +Supported compilers
> > +-------------------
> > +
> > +To compile, QEMU requires either:
> > +
> > +- GCC >= 7.4.0
> > +- Clang >= 6.0
> > +- XCode Clang >= 10.0
>
> Do we need to spell out the versions explicitly ? These versions are
> all derived from what's available in the repos of the supported build
> platforms, similar to any other build deps we have. I don't think we
> want to start a precedent of duplicating versions in this doc for
> build deps we have, and there's nothing particularly special about
> compilers in this respect.

I agree with Daniel - when I saw this patch, the first thought that I had 
was: "This will be getting out of sync quickly" ...
so I'd also recommend to rather not add this here.

 Thomas