On 30-06-16 13:52, Backeljauw Franky wrote: > Hi Kenneth, > > Two small questions: > > * Why don’t you condiser GCC 6.1 (or GCC 6.0) to be part of “all the > latest & greatest”? > * Is it necessary to have identical version of GCC for the foss and > intel toolchains?
Well, you could use a different GCC for both but that means a different GCCcore for each. And one of the reason for using the same is that we can have dependencies (like automake, libtool, ncurses, ...) that work for both foss and intel. And intel only officially support GCC 5.x for now. Furthermore, we didn't test GCC 6.1 heavily so far (anybody else how did?). And as GCC changed the default C++ version from 98 to 11, it might break quite a few things. The Fedora people found more broken builds then usual after doing a GCC 6 rebuild. So, the suggestion is to wait until GCC 6.2 (or greater) is released before switching. Any objections? Ward
