Re: F28 with GCC 8 ?

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, 2 Apr 2018, 17:44 Ed Greshko,  wrote:

> I was trying to get a 3rd party utility compiled on F28 and it failed.  I
> didn't do
> any research or debugging but since it works fine on F27 I'm guessing it
> is due to changes in GCC from 7 to 8 which the 3rd party hasn't yet
> addressed.
>
> But this got me to thinking and looking around and I see that on the
> https://gcc.gnu.org/ GCC 8 is termed "Development".  And in an email
> dated 3/27 about
> the status of development it is said:
>
> "The GCC 8 trunk is open for regression and documentation fixes.  Following
> past releases we are aiming at a first release candidate mid April though
> if you look at the quality data below that looks ambitious."
>
> Does this mean F28 may be shipped prior to GCC 8 being formally released?
>

Unlikely, but the upstream GCC maintainers work closely with Fedora and in
all the years we've worked with them it's all been fine, I suspect that the
gcc-8 already in Fedora 28 is damn close and the vast majority of fixes
that will land between now and GA will be corner cases, we've had a few
cases over the years where something major has popped up causing us to do a
partial mass rebuild to fix things in Fedora before GA but they're few and
far between and there's a lot of eyes looking to ensure its good.

Peter
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F28 with GCC 8 ?

[Ed Greshko]

I was trying to get a 3rd party utility compiled on F28 and it failed.  I 
didn't do
any research or debugging but since it works fine on F27 I'm guessing it
is due to changes in GCC from 7 to 8 which the 3rd party hasn't yet addressed.

But this got me to thinking and looking around and I see that on the
https://gcc.gnu.org/ GCC 8 is termed "Development".  And in an email dated 3/27 
about
the status of development it is said:

"The GCC 8 trunk is open for regression and documentation fixes.  Following
past releases we are aiming at a first release candidate mid April though
if you look at the quality data below that looks ambitious."

Does this mean F28 may be shipped prior to GCC 8 being formally released?


-- 
Conjecture is just a conclusion based on incomplete information. It isn't a 
fact.



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