On Mon, 2 Apr 2018, 17:44 Ed Greshko, <ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I was trying to get a 3rd party utility compiled on F28 and it failed. I didn't do
any research or debugging but since it works fine on F27 I'm guessing it
is due to changes in GCC from 7 to 8 which the 3rd party hasn't yet addressed.
But this got me to thinking and looking around and I see that on the
https://gcc.gnu.org/ GCC 8 is termed "Development". And in an email dated 3/27 about
the status of development it is said:
"The GCC 8 trunk is open for regression and documentation fixes. Following
past releases we are aiming at a first release candidate mid April though
if you look at the quality data below that looks ambitious."
Does this mean F28 may be shipped prior to GCC 8 being formally released?
Unlikely, but the upstream GCC maintainers work closely with Fedora and in all the years we've worked with them it's all been fine, I suspect that the gcc-8 already in Fedora 28 is damn close and the vast majority of fixes that will land between now and GA will be corner cases, we've had a few cases over the years where something major has popped up causing us to do a partial mass rebuild to fix things in Fedora before GA but they're few and far between and there's a lot of eyes looking to ensure its good.
Peter
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