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Officially drop support for GCC <= 4.8 #296

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Although GCC 4.8 is labelled as C++11 compatible, the reasons are:

  • GCC 4.8 is buggy enough to prevent reasonable use of Boost.MP11
  • GCC 4.8 is dying

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@mloskot mloskot added the cat/deprecation Deprecate a feature or functionality label Apr 28, 2019
@mloskot mloskot added this to the Boost 1.71 milestone Apr 28, 2019
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Although GCC 4.8 is labelled as C++11 compatible, the reasons are:

* GCC 4.8 is buggy enough to prevent reasonable use of Boost.MP11
* GCC 4.8 is dying

Closes boostorg#282
The driver built with GCC 4.9 is failing at run-time
on docker images with newer GCC (e.g. GCC 5.x) with:

   ./b2: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by ./b2)
   ./b2: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.17' not found (required by ./b2)
   Exited with code 1

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@mloskot mloskot merged commit c9ccc83 into boostorg:develop Apr 28, 2019
@mloskot mloskot deleted the ml/drop-support-for-gcc48 branch April 28, 2019 13:51
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