From: Hans Wennborg <hans@hanshq.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 08:45:37 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: ReleaseNotes about the toolchain version cmake check
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ReleaseNotes about the toolchain version cmake check

Based on text from JF!


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diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
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@@ -40,6 +40,22 @@ Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
    functionality, or simply have a lot to talk about), see the `NOTE` below
    for adding a new subsection.
 
+* As `discussed on the mailing list
+  <https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-January/129452.html>`_,
+  building LLVM will soon require more recent toolchains as follows:
+
+  ============= ====
+  Clang         3.5
+  Apple Clang   6.0
+  GCC           5.1
+  Visual Studio 2017
+  ============= ====
+
+  A new CMake check when configuring LLVM provides a soft-error if your
+  toolchain will become unsupported soon. You can opt out of the soft-error by
+  setting the ``LLVM_TEMPORARILY_ALLOW_OLD_TOOLCHAIN`` CMake variable to
+  ``ON``.
+
 * The **llvm-cov** tool can now export lcov trace files using the
   `-format=lcov` option of the `export` command.