From: Damjan Marion <damarion@cisco.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 23:33:56 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: build: use gcc-8 as default on ubuntu 18.04
X-Git-Tag: v20.09-rc0~334
X-Git-Url: https://gerrit.fd.io/r/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=refs%2Fchanges%2F27%2F26127%2F2;p=vpp.git

build: use gcc-8 as default on ubuntu 18.04

Type: improvement
Change-Id: I34c9e95ad9160436cb62dec7a1a2d0ce94602ab7
Signed-off-by: Damjan Marion <damarion@cisco.com>
---

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 3a5c80b52a9..67fdcd487e2 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -59,6 +59,11 @@ else ifeq ($(filter rhel centos fedora opensuse opensuse-leap opensuse-tumblewee
 PKG=rpm
 endif
 
+# on ubuntu 18.04 prefer gcc-8 if it is installed and CC  is not set
+ifeq ($(OS_VERSION_ID)-$(CC)-$(shell which gcc-8 > /dev/null; echo $$?),18.04-cc-0)
+	CC = gcc-8
+endif
+
 # +libganglia1-dev if building the gmond plugin
 
 DEB_DEPENDS  = curl build-essential autoconf automake ccache
@@ -81,6 +86,7 @@ ifeq ($(OS_VERSION_ID),16.04)
 else ifeq ($(OS_VERSION_ID),18.04)
 	DEB_DEPENDS += python-dev
 	DEB_DEPENDS += libssl-dev
+	DEB_DEPENDS += gcc-8
 else ifeq ($(OS_VERSION_ID),20.04)
 	LIBFFI=libffi7
 else ifeq ($(OS_ID)-$(OS_VERSION_ID),debian-8)