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Re: [PATCH 05/10] Remove __need macros from errno.h (__need_Emath, __need_error_t).

On Mai 12 2017, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 05/11/2017 07:25 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> On Mai 11 2017, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 05/11/2017 05:42 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>>> On Mai 11 2017, Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> * Requiring GCC 5 as minimum GCC version for building glibc on the basis
>>>>> of what's maintained upstream (though that's more aggressive than we've
>>>>> previously been on increasing GCC version requirements).  (Versions before
>>>>> 4.9 don't work with build-many-glibcs.py anyway.)
>>>>
>>>> openSUSE Leap 42.2 (aka SLE 12) has gcc 4.8 as the system compiler.
>>>
>>> Is it possible to use the Toolchain Module to get a newer GCC version?
>>
>> Both Leap and the toolchain module offer gcc5 and gcc6.  But what you
>> call as gcc will remain 4.8.
>
> Do you think that results in a major inconvenience?

You have to remember to point both CC and CXX to the newer compiler.

Andreas.

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