Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Oct 2022 21:23:58 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: gcc 5 & 6 & others already out of date? |
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On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 08:38:02PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Mark Brown: > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 10:37:21AM -0600, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > I was looking at your suggestion there - as a Debian user that feels a > > touch enthusiastic (though practically probably not actually a problem) > > since it's not too far off the release cadence, current Debian is at GCC > > 10 and we're not due for another release till sometime next year which > > will be right on the three years.
> Debian also has Clang 13, presumably for building Rust and Firefox.
Ah, so it does - nice!
> > There does also seem to be a contingent of people running enterprise > > distros managed by an IT department or whatever who may take a while > > to get round to pushing out new versions so for example might still > > for example be running Ubuntu 20.04 rather than 22.04 (never mind the > > people I know are sitting on 18.04 but that's another thing).
> The enterprise distributions have toolchain modules or toolsets that you > can install, all nicely integrated. You'd probably consider those > versions too new. 8-/ I expect it's mostly an education issue, raising > awareness of what's available from vendors. (glibc versions are a > different matter, but I don't think dropping support for historic > versions on build hosts is on the table, so that should be relevant.)
Yeah, I found the ones for SLES easily enough but not the ones for RHEL or Ubuntu. Perfectly prepared to believe they're there though, it does seem like sometihng users might want. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |