DOC: update INSTALL to reflect the minimum compiler version
authorWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Wed, 2 Apr 2025 16:05:36 +0000 (18:05 +0200)
committerAurelien DARRAGON <adarragon@haproxy.com>
Tue, 15 Apr 2025 16:37:48 +0000 (18:37 +0200)
commitd15881c16773b2db55d9f9aed4acf1a8a9ca667a
treece93c6258c37c06f113aa3ec1a8071cf28da0a01
parent6ed335b81f7c208a9c58ff7dfe07d7cc2367b154
DOC: update INSTALL to reflect the minimum compiler version

The mt_list update in 3.1 mandated the support for c11-like atomics that
arrived with gcc-4.7. As such, older versions are no longer supported.
For special cases in single-threaded environments, mt_lists could be
replaced with regular lists but it doesn't seem worth the hassle. It
was verified that gcc 4.7 to 14 and clang 3.0 and 19 do build fine.
That leaves us with 10 years of coverage of compiler versions, which
remains reasonable assuming that users of old ultra-stable systems are
unlikely to upgrade haproxy without touching the rest of the system.

This should be backported to 3.1.

(cherry picked from commit 1450b44bb9e5cdc1eafe894e1bcaf483edfc2748)
Signed-off-by: Aurelien DARRAGON <adarragon@haproxy.com>
INSTALL