[SailfishDevel] Updating gcc?

[Andrew Branson]

Noted, thanks. Looks like lbt's the one to convince there ;)

Cheers,

Andrew

On Sat Nov 5 16:44:56 2016 GMT+0100, Roberto Colistete Jr. 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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