From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8853 invoked by alias); 2 Nov 2016 15:58:52 -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 7937 invoked by uid 89); 2 Nov 2016 15:58:51 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-4.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=our 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; Wed, 02 Nov 2016 15:58:50 +0000 Received: from int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.24]) (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 7B1A4C04B930; Wed, 2 Nov 2016 15:58:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.ams2.redhat.com [10.39.146.11]) by int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id uA2FwmF9018617; Wed, 2 Nov 2016 11:58:48 -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> <7437e071-2020-2e0d-0f8b-8269767d157b@redhat.com> From: Pedro Alves Message-ID: <9dbf91d5-5d06-5f4c-2e6e-c6d232ce9252@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2016 15:58:00 -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: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2016-11/txt/msg00012.txt.bz2 On 11/02/2016 02:51 PM, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote: > On 01/11/16 16:53, Pedro Alves wrote: >> 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: >> > > Which are not installed on any of our machines and, frankly, I wouldn't > want to take a wager on persuading our IT admins to do that. :-( It's > certainly unlikely to happen in short order. I don't want to sound presumptuous, but I can't imagine why they'd refuse to install a RH-validated package on a RH system, package which was made exactly for purposes like the one at hand. C++11 is only becoming more common and a dependency of many upstream projects. clang/llvm just recently started requiring gcc 4.8 too (for full C++11 support), for example. Thanks, Pedro Alves