On 10/22/20 9:28 AM, Petr Pisar wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 09:20:28AM -0600, Jeff Law wrote:
>> On 10/22/20 8:27 AM, Petr Pisar wrote:
>>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 08:10:02AM -0600, Jeff Law wrote:
>>>> I do think we need to make it easier for a Fedora package maintainer to
>>>> get the gcc-11 bits so that if there's a need to debug a bad interaction
>>>> between gcc-11 and a package they can.
>>>>
>>> gcc-11 was built into a side tag. Each build target has a repository in 
>>> Koji.
>>> This one is
>>> <http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/repos/eln-build-side-32479/latest/$basearch>.
>>>
>>> If you worry about ELN-Fedora compatibility, create a new side tag 
>>> intheriting
>>> from f34 and rebuilt gcc-11 there. Or build a module that anyone interested
>>> can enable on his system.
>> Sorry, I wasn't terribly clear.
>>
>>
>> So last year when I was testing gcc-10 against Fedora one of the
>> recurring issues we had was that if I needed input from a package
>> maintainer on an issue flagged by gcc-10 we had no good way for the
>> package maintainer to get gcc-10 rpms to do any investigation on their own.
>>
>>
>> With the gcc-11 side tag build and eventual landing in ELN that issue
>> should be much better.  So if I need to sync with a package maintainer
>> on an issue, we have a way to make that happen.
>>
> I see. This year it's indeed more accessible. E.g. I've just installed it
> from the side tag repository to my Rawhide and verifired that perl builds fine
> with GCC 11 :)

:-)


I already verified that, repeatedly.  On Sept 7th, Sept 20th, Oct 1st
and Oct 15th.  I figure the next build of perl with gcc-11 in my tester
should land in about a week ;-)


Jeff

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