On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 08:31:47AM +0200, Richard Biener wrote:
> > IIRC the primary reason we settled on gcc-4.8.x was RHEL7/Centos7. With
> > RHEL 7 approaching EOL moving the baseline forward would seem to make sense.
> >
> > I'd want to know if this affects folks using SuSE's enterprise distro
> > before actually making the change, but I'm broadly in favor of moving
> > forward it it's not going to have a major impact on users that are using
> > enterprise distros.
>
> We're thinking of making GCC 13 the last major release to officially
> build for SLE12 which
> also uses GCC 4.8, so we'd be fine with doing this for GCC 14.
We'd need to figure out what to do with the OS on gcc{110,112,135} on CFarm,
those are all CentOS 7.9 with gcc 4.8.5. Sure, one possibility would be
to install some DTS gcc if CentOS has one somewhere (though looking around,
/opt/at12.0 already has there gcc 8 from IBM Advanced Toolchain 12).
Jakub
