The previous bump to 4.4 was done in:
commit 24241c236e5e0b0b51a33ba539b40f5429a0df0e
Author: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Date: Wed Jul 5 10:35:32 2017 +0100
Require use of GCC 4.4 or CLang compilers
with 4.4 picked due to RHEL-6. Since we dropped RHEL-6, the
next oldest distro is RHEL-7 (4.8.5), and thus we pick 4.8
as the new min.
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>