Re: What's the minimum version of GCC required to build the latest Vim? Are there any patches to allow one to build it with even older versions of GCC?

Brenton Horne wrote:

> I maintain Vim packages in my Open Build Service home project, for example
> here are the packaging files I use to build it for CentOS/Fedora/Scientific
> Linux https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:fusion809/vim-redhat. I
> would like to build Vim for CentOS 5 and 6, but I cannot presently do this,
> because the build fails and I think the reason why is that GCC is too old.
> So I am here to ask what's the minimum version of GCC required to build the
> latest Vim (so 8.0) and are there any ways to build Vim with an older GCC?
> The build log (showing the error from building Vim on 64-bit CentOS 6) can
> be found here
> <https://build.opensuse.org/build/home:fusion809/CentOS_6/x86_64/vim/_log>,
> if you're wondering whether it's a bug.

Vim should build with old versions of GCC without a problem.
It's actually newer versions that could be a problem, especially early
minor releases of a major release. These quite often have quirks or
bugs.

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