On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 9:48 PM, David C. Rankin
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On 04/17/2016 06:50 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-04-17 07:14, David C. Rankin wrote:
All,
There are some C11 additions made in 4.9 (_Generic, etc..) that are not available in 13.1 with gcc 4.8 (or 13.2 if gcc 4.8 was used). gcc 4.9 and 5 are available in the devel:/gcc repo. I am going to update, but before I do I thought I would check with the list and see if that update has any unintended side effects,
I believe the trick is to have both installed, with the old one as default. But I don't remember how this is done.
Thanks Carlos,
I haven't been able to find a specific, but I have this nagging feeling that if I replace the default gcc, really bad things will happen. I can't remember when or where this discussion was had before, but sometime in the past 15 years I remember there being advise against a wholesale change of gcc version on SuSE. I'll skip the upgrade for now and just use another box when I run into these issues.
Anybody else have any thoughts here, just let me know. Thanks.
Adding a new GCC as a non-default compiler on the system should be safe. Like Carlos, I don't know how to do that. For the default compiler, I know it is typically a multi-month process to update GCC in factory. There is a GCC 6 staging project right now where they are working out the next update. https://build.opensuse.org/project/monitor/openSUSE:Factory:Staging:Gcc6 Note that GCC 6 is already in factory as an optional compiler: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/gcc6 It is making it the default that is a much bigger task. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org