[SailfishDevel] Updating gcc?

Marcin Mielniczuk marmistrzmar at gmail.com
Sat Nov 5 15:47:22 UTC 2016


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Marcin

On November 5, 2016 4:44:42 PM GMT+01:00, "Roberto Colistete Jr." <roberto.colistete at gmail.com> wrote:
>     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?
>
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