On Mon, 3 Apr 2017, L A Walsh wrote:
I looked at the repo @ http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-current/repo/oss/suse/x86...
Whatever 'openSUSE-current' actually is...
When I search for 'gcc-', I get a copy of 4.8.
Looks like it is either 13.2 or some Leap variant then. But you can also see gcc6 packages in this repository (binaries are called gcc-6 then, not gcc).
Why is the nominal default set to a compiler collect that is no longer supported?
Because it's an old product and changing the compiler that is used to build packages (and security updates) is a PITA.
It seems that 4.9 fell out of support some time ago, with 4.8 being even older.
When I ask for 'gcc', why am I not pointed to the latest-stable release (6.3)?
When opensuse 13.2 came out 4.8 was the current release, and to get 4.9, one had to type in a gcc command with "-4.9" appended to it making it hard to use w/build scripts and src rpms that have 'gcc' hardcoded.
It there a reason why we don't default to the highest stable version?
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