Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: stable gcc 5.4.0 ??

[Mart Raudsepp <leio@gentoo.org>]

Ühel kenal päeval, N, 20.04.2017 kell 18:17, kirjutas Walter Dnes:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 07:36:03AM +0200, Tomas Mozes wrote
> > 
> > The default is new:
> > https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2015-10-22-gcc-5-new-c++1
> > 1-abi.html
> 
>   And the news item says...
> 
> > Display-If-Installed: >=sys-devel/gcc-5
> 
> ...which means that people like me, who currently have 4.9.4, won't
> know
> about it until after the fact.  Then they'd have to...

You will still have 4.9.4 until you unmerge it, and will still use
4.9.4 until you gcc-config to gcc5.

> GCC 5.4 Status: 2016-06-03 (regression fixes & docs only).
> 
> GCC 6.3 Status: 2016-12-21 (regression fixes & docs only). 
> 
> GCC 7.1 Status: 2017-04-20 (frozen, all changes require RM approval).
> 
> Development: GCC 8.0 Status: 2017-04-20 (regression fixes & docs
> only).

Notice how 4.9 isn't even mentioned there as receiving regression fixes
or whatnot anymore.

>   Maybe we should what many enterprises do with Windows; i.e. skip a
> version and go straight to gcc-6.

No. Maybe with gcc 5 to 7.


Other than that, I am terribly sorry for your inconvenience. But 2014
called and wanted its compiler back :(  So we are "bleeding edge" again