All, Following up on my question in the OMPI BoF today, I have confirmed that RHEL8 is shipping GCC-8.2, *not* the problematic GCC-4.8.5 used in RHEL7.
I don't believe that the numerous RHEL7-based systems are going to jump to upgrade, at least you can have some confidence that NEW systems coming online with a too-old gfortran should be small in number. So, while dropping support in OMPI 5.0 for gfortran < 4.9 will hurt folks using RHEL7 (and the vendor-provided GCC), this decision will not impact RHEL8 systems. -Paul -- Paul H. Hargrove <phhargr...@lbl.gov> Computer Languages & Systems Software (CLaSS) Group Computer Science Department Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
