[vbox-dev] wrong error message with gcc-7

[Frank Mehnert]

Hi Gianfranco,

On Mittwoch, 17. Mai 2017 09:06:22 CEST Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> configure:
> 
> -log_failure "gcc version $cc_maj.$cc_min found, expected gcc 4.x, gcc 5.x or gcc 6.x" 
> 
> +log_failure "gcc version $cc_maj.$cc_min found, expected gcc 4.x, gcc 5.x or gcc 7.x" 
> 
> BTW gcc -dumpversion in debian experimental returns "7" and no minor version,
> so the cc_min is evaluated as "7" leading to an error such as:
> "gcc version 7.7 found, expected gcc 4.x, gcc 5.x or gcc 7.x"
> 
> this seems really a gcc bug (because version is 7.1 right now), I'll investigate :)

correct. This error message was already fixed in

  https://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/65663/vbox

but this changeset was not yet backported to 5.1. Done now. Regarding the
'gcc-7 -dumpversion' problem: See

  https://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/66931/vbox

I've backported this changeset to 5.1 as well so it will be part of the next
5.1.x maintenance release.

Kind regards,

Frank
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