Building RPMs

[Matthew Newton]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 08:49:02AM +0000, A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk wrote:
> > Actually, thinking about it, most people should be building 3.0.x
> > packages, which doesn't need C11, so shouldn't need devtoolset-3
> > yet.
> 
> well, really they should be using 3.1.x as thats just about to pop out 3.2.x,
> the next stable release...and if enough people arent using it we'll have
> nasty bugs/issues on 3.2.x release like we did for 2.2.x and 3.0.x  :(
> 
> and you should be using devtoolset-4  ;-)

Don't really care which version they run or what compiler they
use, as long as it's not 2.1.12 or 3.0.4 (or similar age) and it
compiles. Most people want a "stable" release, so that means
3.0.11 or so.

The general questions on the list of "foo is broken for me in
3.0.4", when foo is a small unlang syntax issue, they've not
tested in 3.0.x, and they don't provide full debug output
indicates to me that they're not good candidates for testing 3.1
or 4 in production... IMO anyway.

Matthew


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