On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de> wrote:
On Thursday 2016-07-21 01:54, David Adam wrote:
We're looking at adding some C++11 features to the code [...] of course RHEL/CentOS 5 & 6 have compilers that are just too old to support these. If we have to, we'll drop these platforms[...] Does anyone have any ideas for how to get a newer compiler into the build?
I followed simotek's suggestion from SuperUser[1] and branched the gcc47 package into my own project, but I just couldn't convince it to build properly on RHEL 5/6 due to unresolvable dependencies[2], possibly because of the different structure of openSUSE's base system.
Ideally we could just pull the packages from http://people.centos.org/tru/devtools-2/devtools-2.repo but I understand that might be hard to make work.
They would install the compiler in /opt which means you have to mess around with specfiles. (And in any case, you would want the current devtools-4.)
I'm actually looking into a similar thing, myself. And devtoolset-2 is the last version for RHEL/CentOS 5, as newer devtoolset versions are EL6/EL7 only. I would prefer to use newer versions whenever possible, obviously. :) -- 真実はいつも一つ!/ Always, there's only one truth! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+owner@opensuse.org