Thanks! I didn't know about gcc 4.8 std::regex issue or about the devtoolset packaging. I built gcc 8.2 from source on my CentOS 4, 5, 6, and 7 build systems last July, but I have only been using it for the C compiler. William
________________________________ From: poppler <[email protected]> on behalf of Albert Astals Cid <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 4, 2019 1:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [poppler] Moving up our "minimum" Linux base El dilluns, 4 de febrer de 2019, a les 8:28:54 CET, Thomas Freitag va escriure: > Hi William! > > But gcc 4.8.5 could cause problems since poppler uses std::regex, see > i.e. here > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12530406/is-gcc-4-8-or-earlier-buggy-about-regular-expressions. > Since I encounterd problems with poppler similar to > https://github.com/isc-projects/ethq/issues/5 I switched to devtoolset-3 > on CentOS which use 4.9.2 and seems to solve that problem with regex. exactly on centos you can get up to gcc 8.2 http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/sclo/x86_64/rh/devtoolset-8/ Cheers, Albert > > Cheers, > Thomas > Am 03.02.19 um 17:48 schrieb William Bader: > > CentOS 7 has gcc 4.8.5, and I think that RHEL 8 is still in beta. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *From:* poppler <[email protected]> on behalf of > > Adam Reichold <[email protected]> > > *Sent:* Sunday, February 3, 2019 10:44 AM > > *To:* [email protected] > > *Subject:* Re: [poppler] Moving up our "minimum" Linux base > > Hello Albert, > > > > Am 03.02.19 um 14:39 schrieb Albert Astals Cid: > > > Right now our minimum Linux base as "guaranteed" by the gitlab CI is > > > Ubuntu 14.04. Since that is going out of support even by Canonical > > > this April I'd like to move that "minimum" to Ubuntu 16.04. > > > > > > Particularly that means we could start requiring features available > > in gcc 5.4 > > > > > > Anyone against this? > > > > Didn't you mention some company-internal regression test runners that > > would still tie us to GCC 4.9? > > > > > Cheers, > > > Albert > > > > Best regards, > > Adam > > _______________________________________________ > > poppler mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler > > > > _______________________________________________ > > poppler mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler > > > _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
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