On Mon, 2015-03-09 at 12:17 +0100, Richard Biener wrote:
On Fri, 6 Mar 2015, Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
On Fri, 2015-03-06 at 15:52 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Friday 2015-03-06 14:55, Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
A bit further down the horizon are topics like GCC5 (still a lot of work happening, to ensure the full distribution builds)
So, what happened to gcc49? We have it in TW, but it is not the default compiler, either.
Indeed, gcc 4.9 was never switched to be the default; but with gcc 5 that close: is it worth the effort to even attempt this NOW?
Of course not. I will submit a drop request for GCC 4.9 very soon. What happened with GCC 4.9 was that (like this time...) I was left alone to make the whole distro build. That's simply too much work for me without a motivation from the SLES side (and thus indirectly paid for). This time it's even harder with all the constraints implemented via the Staging machinery (and a moving target to fix).
Sofar I spent two full weeks on it but not even the minimal goal (regression-free openSUSE:Factor:Staging:Gcc49) is met yet.
Well. It might happen that openSUSE will stay with GCC 4.8 forever (for building packages - you still will get newer compilers from me).
Richard.
Richard,
Thanks for your hard work done on this!
Maybe it can help to rally people if you give once-in-a-while updates of
progress, what are the blockers and where people can help?
There are a lot of bright heads in this community, but like so many
smart men in the world, they are working completely chaotic and if not
reminded of the issue over and over, they forget about it.
Cheers
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Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger