On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 9:38 AM Lennart Sorensen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 01, 2020 at 10:12:59AM -0600, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > Debian has been holding back updates on language updates like GCC for > > some 3 or more months at this point. I had been waiting to update my > > system hoping that I could get things all together as it were. Today I > > bit the bullet and upgraded a whole bunch of stuff. > > > > Anyone know why this, imho important, software is being held with no > > updates for so long? > > If there are other packages that it breaks, they are probably trying to > coordinate having everything ready before they move everything together. > They are generally quite good at handling these transitions. > > New gcc versions are generally quite good at breaking stuff after all. > I still haven't tracked down why gcc 9 broke some scipy fortran code, > while gcc 8 compiles it just fine. It fails to link due to missing > symbols for functions that are clearly in the code. I haven't checked > if gcc 10 fixes the problem, since I have other things to deal with. > Greetings
Sounds like I need to wait - - - - maybe things will get straightened out before they move to then next stable version. (I'm running testing.) Thanks folks! --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
