On 2023/08/05 17:02, Masahiro Yamada wrote: >>>>> It's useful to have some minimal git version one can expect people to >>>>> use. For now, set a somewhat conservative minimum of 1.8.0, which is >>>>> already more then ten years old. No problem with requiring git >= 1.8.0. > > The default GCC on CentOS 7 is GCC 4.8, > which is too old to build the kernel. > > I am not so sure how RHEL/CentOS 7 users are working > on the kernel development, but it is possible to > install a newer gcc version from Developer Toolset. CentOS 7 users can install a newer git version as well as gcc. > commit f5983dab0ead92dc2690d147f0604a0badcac6a8 > Author: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed Jun 28 01:32:05 2023 +0900 > > modpost: define more R_ARM_* for old distributions > > On CentOS 7, the following build error occurs. It is glibc-headers-2.17-326.el7_9 package. Neither gcc nor git problem.
