Node is bumping minimum GCC version to 4.9.4

[nschonni]

Upstream issue nodejs/build#762
We may need to adjust our Travis, since it looks like we still pin to 4.7

[xzyfer]

Might be a good time to consider moving binary builds to Debian

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[saper]

For people stuck with older node versions we should probably keep the older compiler. I don't know if the binaries built with 4.9.* linked to its libstdc++.so.6 will work on older distributions.

[guillaume-lin]

I am using cent os 7.0 and gcc 4.8.2 , is it safe for me to compile node 8.9.1 with this env ?

[nschonni]

@guillaume-lin that's probably a question for either nodejs/node or nodejs/build repos

[xzyfer]

Summarizing offline chat

• Node is built on CentOS 5 for Node < 8
• Node is built on CentOS 6 for Node >= 8
• The very latest Node 7 patch release (7.10.1) broke CentOS 5 builds
• For safety sake I’ve built the binary use Node 7.10.0 with CentOS 5

We taken the following steps for 4.8.0

• Resuming to build Node < 8 Linux binaries on CentOS 5 (we stopped in 4.7.0)
• Continue to build Node >= 8 Linux binaries on CentOS 6

Remaining actions

• Wait and see if we need to do anything to CI