From cc015d56c395ee2f00fadc9848cf7e258cada454 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Doug Goldstein Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 12:23:41 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] build: specify minimum versions of gcc and binutils To help people avoid having to figure out what versions of gcc and binutils need to be supported document them explicitly. Signed-off-by: Doug Goldstein Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper Acked-by: Jan Beulich --- README | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 1324c7c11c..356a350e9a 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -35,9 +35,13 @@ Second, there are a number of prerequisites for building a Xen source release. Make sure you have all the following installed, either by visiting the project webpage or installing a pre-built package provided by your OS distributor: - * GCC v4.1 or later + * GCC + - For x86 4.1.2_20070115 or later + - For ARM 4.8 or later * GNU Make - * GNU Binutils + * GNU Binutils: + - For x86 2.16.91.0.5 or later + - For ARM 2.24 or later * Development install of zlib (e.g., zlib-dev) * Development install of Python v2.3 or later (e.g., python-dev) * Development install of curses (e.g., libncurses-dev) -- 2.30.2