Ubuntu 16.04 will continue to be supported even with this change, you just
need to set up builtools-extended-tarball to provide a recent compiler,
which is a couple of easy commands suggested by bitbake.

Alex

On Thu 30. Apr 2020 at 2.04, Steve Sakoman <sakoman@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 1:41 PM Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org> wrote:
>
> > So, this is for master, rigth? No plans to backport it to dunfell
> (hence, no
> > rpm backport either), correct? Trying to make sure Yocto LTS will still
> work
> > on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS...
>
> I have the same goal, so no plans to backport to dunfell!
>
> Steve
>
> > > Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
> > > ---
> > >  meta/classes/sanity.bbclass | 6 +++---
> > >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass b/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass
> > > index 9e871017389..292c5591dd3 100644
> > > --- a/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass
> > > +++ b/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass
> > > @@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ def check_wsl(d):
> > >              bb.warn("You are running bitbake under WSLv2, this works
> properly but you should optimize your VHDX file eventually to avoid running
> out of storage space")
> > >      return None
> > >
> > > -# Require at least gcc version 5.0.
> > > +# Require at least gcc version 6.0.
> > >  #
> > >  # This can be fixed on CentOS-7 with devtoolset-6+
> > >  # https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/devtoolset-6/
> > > @@ -541,8 +541,8 @@ def check_gcc_version(sanity_data):
> > >
> > >      build_cc, version =
> oe.utils.get_host_compiler_version(sanity_data)
> > >      if build_cc.strip() == "gcc":
> > > -        if LooseVersion(version) < LooseVersion("5.0"):
> > > -            return "Your version of gcc is older than 5.0 and will
> break builds. Please install a newer version of gcc (you could use the
> project's buildtools-extended-tarball or use scripts/install-buildtools).\n"
> > > +        if LooseVersion(version) < LooseVersion("6.0"):
> > > +            return "Your version of gcc is older than 6.0 and will
> break builds. Please install a newer version of gcc (you could use the
> project's buildtools-extended-tarball or use scripts/install-buildtools).\n"
> > >      return None
> > >
> > >  # Tar version 1.24 and onwards handle overwriting symlinks correctly
> > > --
> > > 2.25.1
> > >
> >
> > >
> >
> >
> 
>