On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 07:50:10PM +0000, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > Well, true, but then just like every year, we'll wind up doing a lot of > > the spadework of fixing things to build with the new GCC. And probably > > at first some critical things will fail to build and that'll mess up > > the stability of the distro for a couple of weeks. I guess if everyone > > else is still loving that grind, hey. > > > > > This is the cost of being "First". Fedora has long enjoyed a tight coupling > with the GCC upstream. It's a symbiosis: they use our mass-rebuild to help > identify any issues before GCC goes stable and in turn Fedora gets to have > the newest compiler features before anyone else. To be fair, Ubuntu (or Debian or both, dunno) has already performed test mass rebuilds with GCC 8 prerelease some time ago and OpenSUSE usually performs them roughly at the same time as we do. We are likely the first one or one of the first ones to deploy it as a stable compiler in the distro and it is mutually beneficial both for the distro and for GCC. Jakub _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
