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[pseudo,29/34] configure: Require GCC 5 or later

Message ID 1794370862-30908-30-git-send-email-mark.hatle@kernel.crashing.org
State New
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Series Various fixes | expand

Commit Message

Mark Hatle Nov. 11, 2026, 4:20 a.m. UTC 
From: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@amd.com>

pseudo uses __has_include, which GCC only supports from version 5, so
older compilers such as GCC 4.8 on CentOS 7 failed part way through the
build.

clang reports itself as GCC 4.2.1, so it is only checked for
__has_include.

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Signed-off-by: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@amd.com>
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 README    |  3 +++
 configure | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/README b/README
index 7808463..cbefa56 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@  things necessary for creating distribution packages or filesystems.
 pseudo is not a security boundary and must not be used in security
 sensitive applications.  See README.security for details.
 
+Building pseudo requires GCC 5 or later (or clang), which the configure
+script checks for.
+
 To configure, run the provided configure script.  Note that this is
 NOT an autoconf script.
 
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index e659370..01ecd85 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -236,6 +236,31 @@  if [ -z "$opt_sqlite_lib" ]; then
     opt_sqlite_lib=$opt_lib
 fi
 
+# pseudo uses __has_include, which needs GCC 5 or later.  clang reports
+# itself as GCC 4.2.1, so only check its support for __has_include.
+if ! cc_version=$(${CC:-cc} -dumpversion 2>/dev/null); then
+    echo >&2 "Error: can't run the C compiler '${CC:-cc}'."
+    exit 1
+fi
+cc_check=$(mktemp -d "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/pseudo-configure.XXXXXX") || exit 1
+cat > "$cc_check/cc_check.c" <<EOF
+#if defined(__clang__)
+# if !defined(__has_include)
+#  error clang without __has_include
+# endif
+#elif !defined(__GNUC__) || __GNUC__ < 5
+# error GCC older than 5
+#endif
+int pseudo_cc_check;
+EOF
+if ! cc_check_out=$(${CC:-cc} -c -o "$cc_check/cc_check.o" "$cc_check/cc_check.c" 2>&1); then
+    echo >&2 "Error: pseudo requires GCC 5 or later (${CC:-cc} reports version $cc_version)."
+    echo >&2 "$cc_check_out"
+    rm -rf "$cc_check"
+    exit 1
+fi
+rm -rf "$cc_check"
+
 if [ ! -f "${opt_sqlite}/include/sqlite3.h" ]; then
     echo >&2 "SQLite3 headers not found in at ${opt_sqlite}/include/sqlite3.h. Please check that SQLite3 and SQLite3 headers are installed."
     exit 1