From 214d852ffd864b75564643b49b2c960d469be3ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?R=C3=A9mi=20Verschelde?= <rverschelde@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 17:43:15 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] SCons: Add GCC/Clang minimum version check

Prevent using GCC 8 as it does not properly support C++17's
guaranteed copy elision which we now need.
(Upstream bug: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86521)

Follow-up to #36457 and #36436.
---
 SConstruct | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 methods.py |  6 ++++--
 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/SConstruct b/SConstruct
index e20499a7560..08a87dbe6c7 100644
--- a/SConstruct
+++ b/SConstruct
@@ -332,6 +332,36 @@ if selected_platform in platform_list:
         # We apply it to CCFLAGS (both C and C++ code) in case it impacts C features.
         env.Prepend(CCFLAGS=['/std:c++17', '/permissive-'])
 
+    # Enforce our minimal compiler version requirements
+    version = methods.get_compiler_version(env)
+    major = int(version[0]) if version is not None else -1
+    if methods.using_gcc(env):
+        # GCC 8 has a regression in the support of guaranteed copy elision
+        # which causes a build failure: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86521
+        if major == 8:
+            print("Detected GCC version 8, which is not supported due to a regression "
+                  "in its C++17 guaranteed copy elision support. Use a newer GCC "
+                  "version, or Clang 6 or later by passing \"use_llvm=yes\" to the "
+                  "SCons command line.")
+            sys.exit(255)
+        elif major < 7:
+            print("Detected GCC version older than 7, which does not fully support "
+                  "C++17. Supported versions are GCC 7, 9 and later. Use a newer GCC "
+                  "version, or Clang 6 or later by passing \"use_llvm=yes\" to the "
+                  "SCons command line.")
+            sys.exit(255)
+    elif methods.using_clang(env):
+        # Apple LLVM versions differ from upstream LLVM version \o/, compare
+        # in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xcode#Toolchain_versions
+        if (env["platform"] == "osx" or env["platform"] == "iphone") and major < 10:
+            print("Detected Apple Clang version older than 10, which does not fully "
+                  "support C++17. Supported versions are Apple Clang 10 and later.")
+            sys.exit(255)
+        elif major < 6:
+            print("Detected Clang version older than 6, which does not fully support "
+                  "C++17. Supported versions are Clang 6 and later.")
+            sys.exit(255)
+
     # Configure compiler warnings
     if env.msvc:
         # Truncations, narrowing conversions, signed/unsigned comparisons...
diff --git a/methods.py b/methods.py
index f6c9e939c6a..18e1c0bba77 100644
--- a/methods.py
+++ b/methods.py
@@ -550,11 +550,13 @@ def detect_darwin_sdk_path(platform, env):
             raise
 
 def get_compiler_version(env):
-    # Not using this method on clang because it returns 4.2.1 # https://reviews.llvm.org/D56803
     if using_gcc(env):
         version = decode_utf8(subprocess.check_output([env['CXX'], '-dumpversion']).strip())
-    else:
+    elif using_clang(env):
+        # Not using -dumpversion as it used to return 4.2.1: https://reviews.llvm.org/D56803
         version = decode_utf8(subprocess.check_output([env['CXX'], '--version']).strip())
+    else:  # TODO: Implement for MSVC
+        return None
     match = re.search('[0-9][0-9.]*', version)
     if match is not None:
         return match.group().split('.')