On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 12:01 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I need/want/would like to build new node 6 for EL6, but gcc is too old.
>>> For that reason, I'd like to use devtoolset-4-gcc, but the build fails
>>> (obviously) because the package doesn't exist.
>>>
>>> So, is there a way to make that work somehow?
>>> I am not sure about enabling external repos during build, maybe someone
>>> will be wiser.
>>
>>
>> This has already been discussed several times:
>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-de...@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KSEYFHCLVPK6DZBDOOPMK46AO65V2SM2/
>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-de...@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7HWJYGXFOMEROUYY2TQKZLKC2MSAAA7R/
>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-de...@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YQLNZYT5ATELGMHNGET7QCOG3S3UIYT5/
>>
>> There are some potential roadblocks, but it comes down to someone writing up
>> an official proposal and going through the full approval process.
>
> So one of the major blockers for me for WRT to using DTS in builds it
> that it is currently x86_64 only but with the next release, (DTS 6.0)
> it will support all the RHEL architectures [1] which certainly make it
> easier to support across platforms. We obviously don't want to deal
> with it prior to GA and I have no idea when the intended GA is it's
> certainly worth discussing further now as to what are the
> requirements, advantages, potential issues etc.

I think this is now worth revisiting, at least for EL7, now DTS is out
and supports key architectures. Thoughts?

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2017/10/25/announcing-release-software-collections-developer-toolset-new-compilers/
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