Re: [HEADS UP] Removal of GCC from the buildroot

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On Mon, 2018-07-09 at 17:45 +0100, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 at 16:42, Przemek Klosowski
> <przemek.klosowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [..]
> > > > After which, I'm going to ask rel-eng to finally remove it from
> > > > buildroot. This will happen before mass rebuild. Stay tuned.
> > > 
> > > After adding explicite gcc/g++ in BuildRequires it will be
> > > extreamly
> > > hard to switch use for example to use clang.
> > Well, you imply that currently we could just substitute clang for
> > GCC
> > and successfully rebuild everything, but that is not the case:
> > there
> > will be breakage.
> 
> My proposition is *not* to add gcc/g++ explicit to BuildReequires and
> use instead glibc-devel and libstdc++-devel modifications and ban use
> gcc/gcc-c++ in BuildRequires (in most of the cases all current
> gcc/g++
> BuildRequires could be replaced by glibc-devel and libstdc++-devel).
> All because it is not possible to use C compiler without glibc-devel
> and C++ compiler without libstdc++-devel.

It might be a surprise for you, but there are other implementations of
C and C++ standard libraries. If I try to imagine Fedora wanting to
switch to clang in the future, I can very well imagine it wanting to
switch to libc++ at the same time... So your "improved" proposal is,
in fact, just as arbitrary and choice-limiting as the one you
criticize.

Congratulations!

D.
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