On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 04:07:43PM -0000, Leigh Scott wrote: > > Fedora cannot use the default tarball due to legal restrictions. Additionally, Fedora uses > > GCC (intentionally) which requires patch work for each release, but improves the quality > > of the resulting package. > > So GCC needs 125Gb of Ram to build chromium? > https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=83529675 > > What makes the GCC build better than clang build? GCC was "the" Fedora compiler that everyone had to use, but in Fedora 35 the policy changed: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CompilerPolicy However Tom may have his own reasons to use GCC, he's the packager so it's up to him. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
