From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 40682 invoked by alias); 1 Nov 2016 16:53:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 40661 invoked by uid 89); 1 Nov 2016 16:53:51 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=sk:redhat, staticlibstdc, static-libstdc X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 01 Nov 2016 16:53:40 +0000 Received: from int-mx14.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx14.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.27]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B2A263F722; Tue, 1 Nov 2016 16:53:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.ams2.redhat.com [10.39.146.11]) by int-mx14.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id uA1Grc7E015599; Tue, 1 Nov 2016 12:53:39 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] gdb: Require a C++11 compiler To: "Richard Earnshaw (lists)" , gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <1477596094-3244-1-git-send-email-palves@redhat.com> <2f6931ce-8286-9b97-3a67-8228becfa424@arm.com> From: Pedro Alves Message-ID: <7437e071-2020-2e0d-0f8b-8269767d157b@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2016 16:53:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2f6931ce-8286-9b97-3a67-8228becfa424@arm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2016-11/txt/msg00003.txt.bz2 Hi Richard, On 11/01/2016 11:00 AM, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote: > Sorry, I have to say I think this is too soon (having just found out the > hard way) :-( ). Sorry for causing you trouble. :-( > Half of the machines I use are still running RHE5 and this change means > I can no-longer use the system compiler for building GDB. A change that > requires use of a non-standard compiler significantly complicates the > process of building (and worse, productizing) GDB builds as now you have Fortunately, there are gcc 4.8 packages for RHEL5 in DTS2: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-releases-red-hat-developer-toolset-2-0-with-update-to-gcc http://developers.redhat.com/blog/2013/09/12/rh-dts2-ga/ Hopefully the number of users that want new gdb but can't install that will be limited. > to mess with either forcing static linking or worse, forcing uses to > mess with non-standard LD_LIBRARY paths at run time. Note that just like gcc, gdb builds with -static-libstdc++ -static-libgcc. Thanks, Pedro Alves