Re: gcc 6 on Fedora

[Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 02:45:35PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 07:03:32PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 02:31:32PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > > Some numbers of what pkgsrc breakage we can expect with gcc 6:
> > > 
> > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel%lists.fedoraproject.org@localhost/thread/DH7M2ADHM6XCRFTRRSKZD6MWFUJKHBZK/
> > 
> > Sorry, if I missed the posts. Is there such plan (to adopt gcc 6 in
> > pkgsrc)? If it is not the default compiler does it indeed affect pkgsrc
> > users?
> 
> I'm posting this mainly because there is ongoing work to upgrade gcc
> in the NetBSD base system to a newer version. I think it'll be 5.3
> though.

Ok. Just a guess: NetBSD base may not face the same turmoil mentioned in
cited posts. Root cause of the turmoil is bloated code, not the compiler
itself (at least so is the impression I got from the post).

Mayuresh.