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Re: gcc 6 on Fedora



Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost> writes:

> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 02:31:32PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
>> Some numbers of what pkgsrc breakage we can expect with gcc 6:
>> 
>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel%lists.fedoraproject.org@localhost/thread/DH7M2ADHM6XCRFTRRSKZD6MWFUJKHBZK/
>
> Sorry, if I missed the posts. Is there such plan (to adopt gcc 6 in
> pkgsrc)? If it is not the default compiler does it indeed affect pkgsrc
> users?

Generally pkgsrc starts off with the base system compiler.  So if fedora
moves to gcc6, then pkgsrc on fedora will hit these issues.  And, as
others change to gcc6, there will likely be some combination of patches
in pkgsrc (unfortunate) and upstream fixes.

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