Fw: Raise the GCC_REQD on lang/nodejs?

["hung.nguyengia" <hung.nguyengia%protonmail.com@localhost>]

Just know about the existence of this mailing list. I posted this on pkgsrc-users without useful answers so I forwarded it here.

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On Sunday, July 4th, 2021 at 3:20 PM, hung.nguyengia <hung.nguyengia%protonmail.com@localhost> wrote:

> In Makefile.common:
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> GCC_REQD+= 4.9.4
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> This simply can't be the case. The GCC on my system is 5.5 and it failed to build lang/nodejs and I'm sure it's because the compiler is too old so it doesn't support the gnu++14 lang/nodejs expects. I have another machine which the GCC is 8.4 and it has no problem build lang/nodejs.
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> It seems the maintainer set the lowest GCC version according to this:
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> https://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx-status.html
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> But this can't be the case. My GCC is 5.5 so according to this it should have no problem with gnu++14, the fact is it failed to build lang/nodejs.
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> I wonder if the maintainer confused between C++14 and C++17? Could it be gnu++17 so my GCC 5.5 failed?