I've added the sentence "An alternative is to use a sufficiently recent version of clang (LLVM)." But having more details would be better.
On Tuesday, August 2, 2022 at 10:46:32 AM UTC-7 Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > > On Tue, 2 Aug 2022, 18:33 Matthias Köppe, <matthia...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tuesday, August 2, 2022 at 10:24:39 AM UTC-7 Dima Pasechnik wrote: >> >>> >>> there is a bit of vagueness there: >>> Support for system GCC older than 6.3 dropped ¶ >>> <https://trac.sagemath.org/wiki/ReleaseTours/sage-9.7#SupportforsystemGCColderthan6.3dropped> >>> >>> Building Sage from source now requires a system installation of GCC >= >>> 6.3 (except on macOS, where the compilers from an up-to-date Xcode or Xcode >>> CLT installation should be used). #33316 >>> <https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/33316> >>> >>> --------- >>> >>> One can build Sage with clang on Linux (and on freebsd). As well, I >>> think, one can build Sage with non-Xcode clang on macOS. >>> >> We do not test such configurations. When did you last test this, and on >> what platform? >> > > My point is that we do not *require* gcc on Linux. > > I tested Homebrew clang on macOS in some 9.6 betas, it worked after minor > tweaks. There was ea ticket about it: > > https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/32207 > > >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sage-release" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to sage-release...@googlegroups.com. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-release/45ae1269-250b-4ea8-b547-54317798dde5n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-release/45ae1269-250b-4ea8-b547-54317798dde5n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-release" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-release+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-release/1d09a604-1316-436e-b16e-7c7a1fb78569n%40googlegroups.com.