[SailfishDevel] Updating gcc?

[Roberto Colistete Jr.]

     Hi,

     The Mer/Sailfish community wants to run Fortran compiler on device 
(like gcc/g++), which is also a dependency for packages R, NumPy, SciPy, 
etc. See the Talk Maemo.org topic "Fortran for Sailfish OS ?" :
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=93925

     So if possible, please make gcc-fortran package with the new 
gcc/g++ version.

         Best regards,

         Roberto


Em 05-11-2016 07:09, Andrew Branson escreveu:
> It's funny you should ask - we're actually hacking around there right 
> now while getting aarch64 building. The choice is a tricky one though 
> - the more you upgrade something like gcc, the more potential problems 
> can be caused in every single package containing C or C++ source.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion though, I'll have a play with newer versions 
> during this process to see the impact.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>
> On 04/11/16 22:08, Marcin Mielniczuk wrote:
>> Current gcc in Mer is 4.8, which is 2 years old. Current releases (5.4,
>> 6.1) have full support for C++14, 4.8's support for C++11 is only
>> experimental.
>>
>> C++11 brought many important changes such as constexprs or simply really
>> useful ones (auto types). It'd be great to have them in Mer.
>>
>> Are there any plans for updating gcc in Mer?