[Buildroot] Bug during Kodi compile with host gcc <4.7, question regarding autobuilders

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Mon, 14 Mar 2016 20:23:16 +0100, Bernd Kuhls wrote:

> with my proposed patch we can lower it to BR2_HOST_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_6 ;)
> 
> With gcc 4.4 (testing with Ubuntu 10.04.4) adding -std=c++0xwill not be 
> enough:
> 
> XBTFWriter.cpp: In constructor ‘CXBTFWriter::CXBTFWriter(const 
> std::string&)’:
> XBTFWriter.cpp:42: error: ‘nullptr’ was not declared in this scope
> 
> Looking around for approaches to solve the problem I found these two 
> commits:
> 
> https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/ae45a2c9d678
> https://github.com/grpc/grpc/
> commit/3ff350cf96676f2c32c6913aceeabf84a15f3715

Why do you want to solve the problem? Adding a dependency on
BR2_HOST_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_6 is perfectly fine, especially for such
a modern, complex C++ software like Kodi.

Best regards,

Thomas
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