Re: gcc8 patches

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On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 01:53:37PM -0600, Jason Bacon wrote:
> 
> These are the patches needed to get gcc8 working on CentOS 7.
> 
> The c99 requirement is the same as for gcc7.
> 
> For gcc8, --with-system-zlib was set unconditionally, which caused the
> breakage for CentOS since it doesn't have zlib in base.  This probably
> affects other platforms as well, but I took the conservative approach and
> only fixed it for Linux.
> 
> Please respond if you have any concerns about these changes.
> 


Hi Jason,

What does the failure look like? the package does depend on zlib, so I
wonder why it isn't picking up a pkgsrc-built zlib.