[Bro-Dev] Time for C++11?

Daniel Thayer dnthayer at illinois.edu
Mon Jun 23 12:01:37 PDT 2014


According to distrowatch:

RHEL 7            gcc 4.8.2
RHEL 6.5          gcc 4.4.7
debian 7          gcc 4.7.2
ubuntu 14.04 LTS  gcc 4.8.2
ubuntu 12.04 LTS  gcc 4.6.3
FreeBSD 10        gcc 4.7.3
FreeBSD 9.2       gcc 4.6.4



On 06/23/2014 01:58 PM, Vlad Grigorescu wrote:
> Fair enough.
>
> For surveying the environment, you can use DistroWatch. For example, to
> see which distros have gcc 4.9:
> http://distrowatch.com/search.php?pkg=gcc&pkgver=4.9.0#pkgsearch
>
> The main stragglers seem to be RHEL and Ubuntu LTS. Ubuntu 12.04 has
> 4.6.3 and RHEL 6.5 has 4.4.7.
>
> I believe RHEL users can install a devtoolset, which has a more recent
> version installed under /opt, but we'll have to make sure CMake checks
> there.
>
>    --Vlad
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Robin Sommer <robin at icir.org
> <mailto:robin at icir.org>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 14:17 -0400, you wrote:
>
>      > If the OpenSuSE build service idea moves forward, does that mean
>     we can be
>      > stricter with the requirements? Hopefully, people should be able
>     to install
>      > a package except if they want to try master or try a certain branch.
>
>     For many people that might remain a matter of taste. Personally, for
>     example, I usually go for the source even if a project offers RPMs. So
>     I'm not sure I would relax requirements just because we have
>     more/better binaries.
>
>     Robin
>
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